croup

croup · noun¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*grewb-“to curve, bend, crawl”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kruppaz“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”
3. Old Norse · derived fromkroppr“body, trunk, mass”
4. Old French · derived fromcroupe“rump, body”
5. Middle English · inherited fromcroupe
6. English todaycroup

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

croup · verb, noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ker-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hrōpaną“to shout”
3. Old English · derived fromhrōpan“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”
4. Middle English · derived fromroupen
5. Scots · borrowed fromcroup
6. English todaycroup

From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop. In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home.

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