Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/krūd

What happened with the English branch of this word? 75.121.180.115 16:23, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

There never was one. It just had Old English: with no actual descendant. And I can't name one, can you? Renard Migrant (talk) 16:49, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

The OED gives kraut as an old word for cabbage (but says "especially for pickled cabbage") SemperBlotto (talk) 16:52, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

But that's a German loanword. If it had survived, the modern English inherited form would have been homophonous with crowd (< crūdan). —CodeCat 20:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)