crobh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crob, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos (“hoof”), itself related to *karwos (“stag”).

Noun

crobh m (genitive singular croibh, nominative plural croibh) or
crobh f (genitive singular croibhe, nominative plural crobha)

1. hand; clawed foot, paw; talons

Declension

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of crobh

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative crobh croibh Vocative a chroibh a chrobha Genitive croibh crobh Dative crobh croibh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an crobh na croibh Genitive an chroibh na gcrobh Dative leis an gcrobh don chrobh leis na croibh

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of crobh

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative crobh crobha Vocative a chrobh a chrobha Genitive croibhe crobh Dative crobh croibh (archaic, dialectal) crobha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chrobh na crobha Genitive na croibhe na gcrobh Dative leis an gcrobh leis an gcroibh (archaic, dialectal) don chrobh don chroibh (archaic, dialectal) leis na crobha

Derived terms

• crobh coille (“woodland geranium”)
• crobh dearg (“bloody geranium”)
• crobh fola (“geranium”)
• crobh préacháin (“crowfoot”)
• crobhán (“small hand, paw”)
• crobhchrág (“dogclutch”)
• crobhlasc (“pear-switch”)
• crobhneart (“strength of hand”)
• crobhóg (“tiny hand”)
• crobhscaoilte (“open-handed”, adjective)
• crobhspíce (“dog-spike”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crobh	chrobh	gcrobh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crobh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “claw”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crob”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “crubh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN