Etymology

Krakow

Krak·ow
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Today it means: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole. Full definition →

Middle English crakou
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  1. Middle English · derived fromcrakou
  2. English todayKrakow

From Middle English crakou, crawcow, with a change in spelling to better reflect the original Polish spelling.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishcrakou all →

crackow

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.