croen

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Galician

Verb

croen

  1. inflection of croar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Spanish

Verb

croen

  1. inflection of croar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Welsh

croen

Etymology

From Old Welsh groen, from Proto-Brythonic *krʉn, from Proto-Celtic *kroknom, syncope of *krokkenom (compare Cornish kroghen, Breton kroc'hen, Old Irish croiccenn), of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut off”), although this gave corwg and ysgaru.

Pronunciation

Noun

croen m (plural crwyn)

  1. (anatomy) skin
  2. hide, pelt
  3. rind, peel

Derived terms

  • croeniog (“made of skin; thick-skinned”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
croen groen nghroen chroen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krok(ke)no-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
  2. ^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 104 iii
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