craw
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Old Irish bráge (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɹɔː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː
Noun
[edit]craw (plural craws)
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[edit]Verb
[edit]craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)
- (archaic) To caw, crow.
- 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch[1]:
- The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]craw
- Alternative form of crowe
Welsh
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Etymology
[edit]From crawen (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Celtic *greup, from Proto-Indo-European *krus- (“crust”), see also Latin crusta (“crust”), Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “frost, icy cold”), κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal, ice”), Avestan 𐬑𐬭𐬎𐬰𐬛𐬭𐬀 (xruzdra, “hard”), Sanskrit क्रूड् (krūḍ, “thicken, make hard”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /kraːu̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /krau̯/
Noun
[edit]craw m (plural crawiau)
- a rejected piece of slate, often used for building fences in quarrying regions of north Wales
- a bad person, a bad lot
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
craw | graw | nghraw | chraw |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “craw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Jóhannesson, A. (1949). Origin of Language: Four Essays. Iceland: H.F. Leiftur, p. 50
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