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cruach

cruach

Irish

Alternative forms

Noun

cruach f (genitive singular cruach)

  1. steel (metal alloy)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish crúach (stack; mountain, hill).

Noun

cruach f (genitive singular cruaiche, nominative plural cruacha)

  1. stack (of corn or hay), pile
  2. (geography) hill, mountain
Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cruach chruach gcruach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish crúach (stack of corn; rick; heap, conical pile; mountain, hill).

Noun

cruach f (genitive singular cruaiche, plural cruachan)

  1. pile, heap, stack
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish crúachaid (heaps, piles), from crúach (heap, pile).

Verb

cruach (past chruach, future cruachaidh, verbal noun cruachadh, past participle cruachte)

  1. pile or heap up
  2. make into a stack