croowe

Yola

Alternative forms

• crowe, crouw

Etymology

From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾuː/

Noun

croowe

1. crow
   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:

     A scalte croowe coome an taak aam awye,

     The scald-crow came and took them away,

Derived terms

• scaulte-crouw

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32