craw

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* As a Scottish and Irish surname, variant of Crow. * As a German surname, from a variant of Grau, Krahe, Kray.

Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gwrogh- or *gwrh3-gh- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gwerh3- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”). Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: гуша (guša) — Crop of a bird
• Czech: vole — Crop of a bird
• Finnish: kupu — Crop of a bird
• French: goitre — Crop of a bird
• French: jabot — Crop of a bird
• Irish: prócar — Crop of a bird
• Māori: tāngaengae — Crop of a bird
• Māori: tenga — Crop of a bird
• Māori: tangai — Crop of a bird
• Māori: nae — Crop of a bird
• Plautdietsch: Kropp — Crop of a bird
• Polish: wole — Crop of a bird
• Portuguese: papo — Crop of a bird
• Russian: зоб (zob) — Crop of a bird
• Slovak: hrvoľ — Crop of a bird
• Turkish: kursak — Crop of a bird
• Ottoman Turkish: قورساق (kursak) — Crop of a bird