crom – Irish adjective declension

Irish adjective forms of crom

Adjective: crom
Declension: 1
Singular Nominativecrom
Singular Genitive Masc.croim
Singular Genitive Fem.croime
Plural Nominativecroma

Comparative

níos croime
ní ba chroime

Superlative

is croime
ba chroime

Adjectives inflected like crom

cam, crom, míchothrom, taobhthrom, éagothrom,

Etymology

From Middle Irish cromm, from Old Irish cromb (“bent, stooped”), from Proto-Celtic *krumbos, from Proto-Germanic *krumbaz (whence German krumm and Dutch krom). The verb is from Old Irish crommaid (“to bend down, stoop”), from the adjective. See: German Adjectives 'krumm', Dutch Adjectives 'krom'.

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