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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
cramb, a cramp-iron, Ir. crampa; from the Eng.
crambadh, crampadh, a quarrel:
cràlaidh, crawl, crawling; from the Eng.
crann, tree, a plough, Ir. crann, a tree, lot, O. Ir. crann, W. and Br. prenn: *qrenn-; cf. Gr. κράνον, cornel, Lat. cornus, Lit. kéras, tree stump, O.Pruss. kirno, shrub (Bezzenberger). Windisch correlated Lat. quernus, oaken, but this form, satisfactory as it is in view of the Welsh, rather stands for quercnus, from quercus, oak.
crannadh, withering, shrivelling, Ir. crannda, decrepit; from crann: "running to wood".
crannag, a pulpit, a wooden frame to hold the fir candles, Ir. crannóg, a hamper or basket, M. Ir. crannoc, a wooden vessel, a wooden structure, especially the "crannogs" in Irish lakes. From crann; the word means many kinds of wooden structures in Gadelic lands.
crannchur, lot, casting lots, Ir. crannchar, O. Ir. crannchur; from crann and cuiir.
crannlach, the teal, red-breasted merganser; from crann and lach, duck, q.v.
craobh, tree, so Ir., E. Ir. cróeb, cráeb, *croib? "the splittable", root krei, kri, separate; as tree of Eng. and its numerous congeners in other languages is from the root der, split; and som other tree words are from roots meaning violence of rending or splitting (kládos, twig, e.g.). For root kri, see criathar.
craoiseach, a spear, E. Ir. cróisech; from craobh?
craoit, a croft; see croit.
craos, a wide, open mouth, gluttony, so Ir., E. Ir. cróes, cráes, O. Ir. crois, gula, gluttony. Zimmer cfs. W. croesan, buffoon. Possibly a Celtic krapestu-, allied to Lat. crāpula, or to Gr. κραιπάλη, headache from intoxication.
crasgach, cross-ways, crasg, an across place; for crosg, from cros of crois, a cross, q.v.
crasgach, corpulent (Sh.; H.S.D. for C. S.); from obsolete cras, body (O'Cl.), Ir. cras, for *crapso-, *kṛps, root kṛp of Lat. corpus?
cratach, back of person, side (Skye): crot?
crath, shake, Ir. crathadh, O. Ir. crothim, *kṛto-; perhaps allied to Lit. kresti, kratýi, shake. But it may be allied to crith, q.v. It has been compared to Gr. κραδάω, brandish, which may be for σκαρδάω, root sker in σκαίρω, spring, Ger. scherz, joke. This would suit G. crith, W. cryd and ysgryd.
