Etymology

cragfast

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Today it means: Stranded on a crag (inaccessible rock). Full definition →

English fast ← Middle English fast ← Old English fæst
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The story

  1. Englishcrag
  2. Proto-Germanic*fastuz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fast
  4. Old Englishfæst
  5. Middle Englishfast
  6. Englishfast
  7. English todaycragfast

From crag (“rocky outcrop”) + fast.

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