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craw en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɹɔ/ without the cot–caught merger
• /kɾɔ/ (Scotland)
• /kɹɔː/ (Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation)
• /kɹoː/ (Australia, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard)
• /kɹɑ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɾɔː/ (Wales)

Etymology

Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Old Norse *kravi (“neck, collar, gullet, crop of a bird”), of unclear origin (potentially cognate to crop), but historically a variation of kragi, the Norse analog of English crag. If craw and crag are cognates, then ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *kragô or Proto-West Germanic *kragō (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”). Other Germanic cognates include Swedish kräva (“crop of a bird”), Danish krave (“collar, crop of a bird”); Dutch kraag, Middle Dutch crāghe, Old Dutch kraga; German Kragen, Middle Low German krage, Middle High German krage, Old High German krago (“collar, neck”). See also crag (Etymology 2).

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

crawthumper · crawthumping · crawful · stick in someone's craw

Synonyms

gullet · crop

Translations (18)

ga prócar (Crop of a bird) · mi nae (Crop of a bird) · mi tangai (Crop of a bird) · cs vole (Crop of a bird) · fi kupu (Crop of a bird) · pdt Kropp (Crop of a bird) · bg гуша (Crop of a bird) · ru зоб (Crop of a bird) · sk hrvoľ (Crop of a bird) · fr goitre (Crop of a bird) · ota قورساق (Crop of a bird) · fr jabot (Crop of a bird) · pt papo (Crop of a bird) · it gozzo (Crop of a bird) · mi tenga (Crop of a bird) · mi tāngaengae (Crop of a bird) · pl wole (Crop of a bird) · tr kursak (Crop of a bird)

craw en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kɹɔ/ without the cot–caught merger
• /kɾɔ/ (Scotland)
• /kɹɔː/ (Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation)
• /kɹoː/ (Australia, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard)
• /kɹɑ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /kɾɔː/ (Wales)

Etymology

Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Old Norse *kravi (“neck, collar, gullet, crop of a bird”), of unclear origin (potentially cognate to crop), but historically a variation of kragi, the Norse analog of English crag. If craw and crag are cognates, then ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *kragô or Proto-West Germanic *kragō (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”). Other Germanic cognates include Swedish kräva (“crop of a bird”), Danish krave (“collar, crop of a bird”); Dutch kraag, Middle Dutch crāghe, Old Dutch kraga; German Kragen, Middle Low German krage, Middle High German krage, Old High German krago (“collar, neck”). See also crag (Etymology 2).

Meanings

1. (archaic) To caw, crow.
   • 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. 1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch:

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