Etymology

crottle

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Today it means: Any of various lichens gathered for dyeing, especially those of the genus Parmelia. Full definition →

Scots crottle ← Scottish Gaelic crotal
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The story

  1. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromcrotal
  2. Scots · borrowed fromcrottle
  3. English todaycrottle

From Scots crottle, from Scottish Gaelic crotal.

Words from the same roots

Scottish Gaeliccrotal all →

crotal

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.