crónán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crónán (“hum, purr, drone; crooning”).

Noun

crónán m (genitive singular crónáin)

1. humming, drone

Declension

Declension of crónán (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative crónán vocative a chrónáin genitive crónáin dative crónán forms with the definite article case singular nominative an crónán genitive an chrónáin dative leis an gcrónán don chrónán

Derived terms

• crónánaí m (“hummer”)

Related terms

• crónánach (“humming”, adjective)
• crónánacht f (“humming”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of crónán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
crónán	chrónán	gcrónán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crónán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crónán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language