crug

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English

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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.)

Noun

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crug (uncountable)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Bread.
    • 1820-23, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
      He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian круг (krug). Doublet of crâng.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crug n (plural cruguri)

  1. (dated) orbit

Declension

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Old Welsh cruc, from Proto-Celtic *krowkos (heap), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (to heap up), shared with Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (heap), Lithuanian kruvà (heap).[1][2] Cognate with Old Irish crúach (stack; mountain, hill).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crug m (plural crugiau)

  1. hillock, knoll
    Synonyms: bryncyn, twmpath
  2. tumulus, barrow
    Synonyms: carnedd, tomen
  3. heap
    Synonyms: pentwr, twr
  4. multitude
    Synonym: lliaws
  5. abscess, boil, blister
    Synonyms: cornwyd, ploryn, pothell

Derived terms

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  • crugen (diminutive form)
  • crugyn (diminutive form)

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
crug grug nghrug chrug
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krowko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 226-27
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “616”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 616

Further reading

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