críonna

See also: crìonna

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish crínda (“old, aged”), from crín (“withered, decayed, decrepit”). By surface analysis, críon +‎ -da.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈcɾʲiːn̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈcɾʲiən̪ˠə/

Adjective

críonna

1. wise, prudent
2. shrewd, sagacious
3. thrifty
4. grown-up, mature
5. old

Derived terms

• ainchríonna (“imprudent”, adjective)
• athair críonna m (“grandfather”)
• buachaill críonna m (“Devil”)
• críonnacht f (“wisdom”)
• daid críonna m (“grand-dad”)
• máthair chríonna f (“grandmother”)
• neamhchríonna (“unwise”)
• seanchríonna (“precocious”)

 

Related terms

• críon (“old, withered, decayed”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
críonna	chríonna	gcríonna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “críonna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “críonna”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “críonna”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crínna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61