Etymology

Crail

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Pictish *cair
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The story

  1. Pictish · derived from*cair“fortress”
  2. English todayCrail

From Pictish *cair (“fortress”) (or the Pictish loanword in Scottish Gaelic) + *al, ail (“rock, cliff”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.