crug

English

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crug (uncountable)

(slang, obsolete) Bread.
- 1820-23, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
  He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

Borrowed from Russian круг (krug). Doublet of crâng.

crug n (plural cruguri)

Declension of **crug**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	crug	crugul	cruguri	crugurile
genitive-dative	crug	crugului	cruguri	crugurilor
vocative	crugule		crugurilor

From Middle Welsh cruc, from Proto-Brythonic *krʉg, from Proto-Celtic *krouk- (“heap”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”), shared with Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”), Lithuanian kruvà (“heap”).^[1]^[2] Cognate with Old Irish crúach (“stack; mountain, hill”).

crug m (plural crugiau, diminutive crugyn or crugen)

Mutated forms of *crug*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
crug	grug	nghrug	chrug

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krowko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 226-27
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “616”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 616