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• Received-Pronunciation: /kɹɒft/
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• General-American: /kɹɔft/ without the cot–caught merger
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• Canada, US, cot-caught-merger: /kɹɑft/
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• Canada, US, cot-caught-merger: /kɹɒft/
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• rhymes with -ɒft
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• CMU ARPABET: K R AO1 F T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an English surname, from the noun croft (“small piece of land”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Craft. * As a Danish, Swedish, German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Kraft. * The place in Leicestershire is from Old English cræft (“device”). Also compare Kroft.

The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.

From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from Old English cruft, from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (krŭptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)). Doublet of grotto and crypt.

A variant of carafe.

21 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: заградено поле — enclosed piece of land
• Czech: záhumenek — enclosed piece of land
• Czech: políčko — enclosed piece of land
• Finnish: haka — enclosed piece of land
• Finnish: torppa — enclosed piece of land
• Finnish: mäkitupa — enclosed piece of land
• Icelandic: hjáleigubóndi — enclosed piece of land
• Icelandic: smábóndi — enclosed piece of land
• Irish: crochta — enclosed piece of land
• Irish: croit — enclosed piece of land
• Italian: podere — enclosed piece of land
• Italian: campicello — enclosed piece of land
• Italian: campetto — enclosed piece of land
• Manx: croit — enclosed piece of land
• Norwegian Bokmål: tuft — enclosed piece of land
• Scottish Gaelic: croit — enclosed piece of land
• Serbo-Croatian: ograđeno polje — enclosed piece of land
• Spanish: coto — enclosed piece of land
• Swedish: torp — enclosed piece of land
• Welsh: tyddyn — enclosed piece of land
• Welsh: crofft — enclosed piece of land