costrel

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English costrel, from Old French costerel, modification of costeret. Compare Medieval Latin costrellum (“a liquid measure”), costrellus (“a wine cup”) and Welsh costrel.

Noun

costrel (plural costrels)

1. (archaic) A bottle of earthenware, leather, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 21:

     A youth, that following with a costrel bore / The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “costrel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Colters, Cotlers, colters, corslet, croslet, lectors

Middle English

Alternative forms

• costerell, costrelle, costril, costrille

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French costerel, modification of costeret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔstˈrɛːl/, /kɔstˈrɛl/, /ˈkɔstrɛl/

Noun

costrel

1. Any small container or means of storage for liquids; a costrel.

   Synonym: costret

Descendants

• English: costrel
• → Middle Welsh: costrel
  • Welsh: costrel

References

• “costrel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Welsh costrel, from Middle English costrel, costrelle, from Old French costerel, modification of costeret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsdrɛl/, [ˈkʰɔstrɛl]
• Rhymes: -ɔsdrɛl

Noun

costrel f (plural costrelau or costreli)

1. flagon, bottle, costrel
2. skin bottle
3. keg
4. measure of two quarts

Synonyms

• potel

Derived terms

• costrel bridd f (“jug, stone bottle”)
• costrel gron f (“borachio”)
• costrel win f (“wine bottle”)
• costrel wydr f (“glass bottle”)
• costrelaid f (“bottleful, flagonful”)
• costrelan f (“phial, ampulla, flask”)
• costrelau'r nefoedd f pl (“the clouds”, literally “the bottles of heaven”)
• costrelfarch m (“bottle-rack”)
• costreliad m (“bottling”)
• costrelig f (“small costrel, phial, flask”)
• costrelu (“to bottle, preserve, treasure”)
• costrelwr m, costrelydd m (“one who carries wine or water in bottles; bottle-maker or seller”)

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
costrel	gostrel	nghostrel	chostrel
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), “costrel”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies