Sanas of Crony or Croney

[Daniel Cassidy]

Croney
Comh-roghna      (pron. CuRony; the “mh” and “gh” are  aspirated.)
Fellow chosen ones. Fellow favorites. Mutual  sweethearts. 
 
Comh- (pron. “cuh-”) prefix to nouns, adjectives, and  verbs; 
(1) Mutual, joint, common; co- (2) Fellow- (3) Equal. (4) Close,  near. (O’
Donaill, p. 278; Dineen, p. 233).
 
Roghna, pl. of rogha, (pron  Rohny)  Chosen ones, sweethearts, the best, 
favorites.   (Dineen, p. 908; OD  p. 1006)  

LARRY: “They manage to get drunk, by hook or by  crook, and keep their pipe 
dreams...I’ve never known more contented men... The  same applies to Harry 
himself and his two cronies at the  far table. He’s so satisfied with life he’s 
never set foot out of this place  since his wife died twenty years ago. “   
(The Iceman  Cometh, p. 594)  
 
Crony, n. very close friend, chum...perhaps as a borrowing from Greek  
chronios, lasting, from chronos time. (Barnhart, p.  236).      




Daniel Cassidy
The Irish Studies Program
New College of California
San Francisco
12.9.04