kraou

Breton

Etymology

From the Catholicon (as "crou"). Identical to Cornish krow ("shelter, hut, pigsty"), Welsh crau ("pigsty, hovel; eye of a needle"), and Irish cró ("goat shed, pigsty, hovel; eye of a needle"). Derived from Proto-Celtic krewos or kruwos, from Proto-Indo-European kreuH- ("to pile, to hide"), also found in Lithuanian krūvà ("pile"), kráuti ("to stack"), and Serbo-Croatian krȍv ("roof"), krȉti ("to hide").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrɔw/

Noun

kraou m

  1. Cattle shed, stable, or pigsty.
  2. Stable (restricted sense).
  3. Christmas crèche; Nativity scene in a stable.

Inflection

Mutation of kraou
unmutated soft aspirate hard
Kkraou Gkraou C'hkraou unchanged
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