Polish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “onomatopoeic?”)

Pronunciation

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Verb

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krekować impf

  1. (intransitive, Near Masovian, in folk songs, of hens) Synonym of gdakać (to cluck) (to produce a clucking sound)

Further reading

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  • Zygmunt Wasilewski (1889) “krekować”, in Jagodne: wieś w powiecie łukowskim, gminie Dąbie: zarys etnograficzny (in Polish), Warsaw: M. Arct, page 242