crwm

Welsh

Etymology

Probably a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.

Adjective

crwm (feminine singular crom, plural crymion, equative crymed, comparative crymach, superlative crymaf)

1. bowed, bent, curved

Derived terms

• acen grom (“circumflex”)
• cromell (“arc”)
• cromen (“dome, arch, cupola”)
• cromfach (“bracket, parenthesis”)
• cromgell (“vault”)
• cromlech (“cromlech, dolmen”)
• cromlin (“curve”)
• crwmach (“stoop, hump”)
• crwman (“stooping person”)
• cryman (“sickle”)
• crymder (“camber”)
• crymedd (“convexity, curvature”)
• crymu (“to bow, to stoop”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
crwm	grwm	nghrwm	chrwm
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.