crefydd

From Middle Welsh creuyð, from Proto-Brythonic *krọβ(ɨð) (with vowel altered after unrelated credu), from Proto-Celtic *krāb- (“devotion, religious practice”), of unknown origin (compare Old Irish crábud from the variant *krāb-V-tos). Pokorny compares Sanskrit श्रम्भते (śrambhate, “to trust”) and constructs a Proto-Indo-European *ḱrebʰ- (“to trust”), but Matasović calls this "formally extremely difficult" due to the lengthened grade in Celtic.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛvɨ̞ð/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkreːvɪð/, /ˈkrɛvɪð/

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• Rhymes: -ɛvɨ̞ð

crefydd f (plural crefyddau)

1. religion

• crefyddol (“religious”)
• crefyddwr (“religious person”)

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krābi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 220–1