crycc

• criċċ, cryċ

From Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”).

Cognate with Old Saxon krukka, Old Dutch *krukka, Old High German krucka.

• IPA^(key): /krytt͡ʃ/, [kryt͡ʃ]

cryċċ f

1. crutch
   • late 10th century, Ælfric's Lives of Saints

     Hē ārās þā on morgen and mid twām cryċċum crēap him tō Wintanċeastre.

     He got up in the morning and hobbled on two crutches to Winchester.

2. curved staff, crook

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: crucche, croch, croche, crouch, cruche
  • English: crutch
  • Scots: crutch

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “crycc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cricc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.