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crau

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English crawl.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -aw
  • Hyphenation: crau

Noun edit

crau m (uncountable)

  1. (Brazil) crawl (swimming style)
    Synonym: (Portugal) crol

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

crau

  1. caw (sound made by crows)

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Welsh creu, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”) (compare Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”), Irish cró (“eye socket; enclosure”)), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₁- (“to hide”) (compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”)).[1]

Noun edit

crau m (plural creuau)

  1. sty
  2. eye socket

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011). “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, s.v. “*kruw(y)o-”, Zagreb, p. 23

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Brythonic *krow, from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s. Cognate with Irish cró, Latin cruor, Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas),[1] Old English hrǣw (English raw).

Noun edit

crau m or f (uncountable)

  1. blood, gore
  2. carnage
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
crau grau nghrau chrau
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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