Etymology

cruive

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Today it means: A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon. Full definition →

Scots cruive ← Middle Scots cruve ← Old Irish cró
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*krewH-
  2. Proto-Celtic · derived from*kruwos
  3. Old Irish · derived fromcró
  4. Middle Scots · derived fromcruve
  5. Scots · borrowed fromcruive
  6. English todaycruive

Borrowed from Scots cruive, from Middle Scots cruve, crove, from Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos, from Proto-Indo-European *krewH-.

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