croen

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Galician

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Verb

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croen

  1. inflection of croar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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croen

  1. inflection of croar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Welsh

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croen

Etymology

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From Old Welsh groen, from Proto-Brythonic *krʉn, from Proto-Celtic *kroknom, syncope of *krokkenom (compare Cornish kroghen, Breton kroc'hen, Old Irish croiccenn), of unknown origin.[1] Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut off),[2] although this gave corwg and ysgaru.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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croen m (usually uncountable, plural crwyn)

  1. (anatomy) skin
  2. hide, pelt
  3. rind, peel

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
croen groen nghroen chroen
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) “krok(ke)no-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
  2. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 104 iii