croch

• IPA^(key): /kɾˠox/^[1][2], /kɾˠɔx/^[3], /kɾˠɞx/, /kɾˠɔ(h)/^[4]

From Old Irish croch, from Latin crux (“cross”).^[5] Doublet of cros.

croch f (genitive singular croiche, nominative plural crocha or crochanna)

1. cross, gallows
2. hook

Alternative plural form: crochanna

From Old Irish crochaid, from the noun croch (“cross”).^[6]

croch (present analytic crochann, future analytic crochfaidh, verbal noun crochadh, past participle crochta) (ambitransitive)

1. to hang
2. to raise, lift
3. (reflexive) to clear off [with le] (leave abruptly)

   Chroch mé liom i ndiaidh an chluiche.

   I cleared off after the game.

• crochadóir
• crochaire

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “croċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “croċaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “croch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “croch”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “croch”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

croch

1. alternative form of crucche

From Insular Proto-Celtic *krukā (compare Welsh crog), borrowed from the oblique stem of Latin crux. Doublet of cros, which was instead formed by attaching feminine ā-stem inflectional endings directly onto the nominative singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾox/

croch f

1. cross
2. gallows

For quotations using this term, see Citations:croch.

• crochaid

• Irish: croch
• Manx: crogh
• Scottish Gaelic: croch

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish crochaid, from the noun croch (“cross”). Doublet of crois.

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾɔx/

croch (past chroch, future crochaidh, verbal noun crochadh, past participle crochte)

1. to hang, suspend
2. to depend

• It is more usual to use bi an crochadh for depend.

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “croch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crochaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Indo-European *k(V)r-, related to several other Indo-European words such as Latin crocio, Lithuanian kriõkti (“to rattle, grunt”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “partridge”), Ancient Greek κρώζω (krṓzō). See also crawcian (“to croak, to caw”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkroːχ/

croch (feminine singular croch, plural croch, equative croched, comparative crochach, superlative crochaf)

1. loud, cacophonous, clamorous

   Synonyms: aflafar, amhersain, cegog

2. strident, vociferous, fierce

   Synonyms: ffyrnig, brochus

• crochaf yr afon, lleiaf y pysgod (“the more clamorous, the water the fewer the fish”)
• gwrthgroch (“gruff”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “croch”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “croch”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies