craw

See also: Craw

English

Alternative forms

• crag

Etymology

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”).

Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹɔː/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː

Noun

craw (plural craws)

1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
2. The crop of a bird.

Synonyms

• crop
• gullet

Derived terms

• stick in someone's craw

Translations

Crop of a bird

• Bulgarian: гуша (bg) f (guša)
• French: goitre (fr) m, jabot (fr) m
• Irish: prócar m
• Maori: tāngaengae, tenga, tangai, nae
• Ottoman Turkish: قورساق (kursak)
• Plautdietsch: Kropp f
• Portuguese: papo (pt) m
• Russian: зоб (ru) m (zob)
• Slovak: (vtáčí) zob m
• Turkish: kursak (tr)

Verb

craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)

1. (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

• WRAC

Middle English

Noun

craw

1. Alternative form of crowe

Welsh

Ffens grawiau

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kraːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /krau̯/

Noun

craw m (plural crawiau)

1. a rejected piece of slate, often used for building fences in quarrying regions of north Wales
2. a bad person, a bad lot

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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

• 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