See also: Craw

English

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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craw (plural craws)

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

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Verb

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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.

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Middle English

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Noun

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craw

  1. Alternative form of crowe

Welsh

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Ffens grawiau

Etymology

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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]

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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

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Mutated forms of craw
radical soft nasal aspirate
craw graw nghraw chraw

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  • 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
  1. ^ Jóhannesson, A. (1949). Origin of Language: Four Essays. Iceland: H.F. Leiftur, p. 50