cromlech

cromlech

English

Etymology

Welsh, from crom (“bowed, arched”, feminine of crwm) + llech (“flat stone”),

First element is a Germanic borrowing (compare Irish crom (“bent over”)) from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz; second element is from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā, compare German Fläche (“flat surface”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒmlɛk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɑmlɛk/
• Hyphenation: crom‧lech

Noun

cromlech (plural cromlechs)

1. A dolmen or ancient underground tomb in Wales, usually made with stones disposed in a circular shape.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.

   Synonym: bowing stone

Translations

Welsh dolmen or underground tomb

Armenian: կրոմլեխ (hy) (kromlex) Basque: harrespil, cromlech (eu) Breton: cromlec'h f Catalan: cromlec m Cornish: krommlegh f Czech: kromlech m Esperanto: kromleĥo Estonian: kromlehh Finnish: cromlech French: cromlech (fr) m, cromlec'h (fr) m Georgian: კრომლეხი (ḳromlexi) German: Kromlech m, Cromlech m Greek: κρόμλεχ n (krómlech) Irish: liagchiorcal m Italian: cromlech (it) m Japanese: (please verify) クロムレック (kuromurekku) Korean: (please verify) 크롬렉 (keuromnek) Lithuanian: kromlechas m Occitan: cromlec m Polish: kromlech (pl) m Portuguese: cromeleque (pt) m Russian: кро́млех (ru) m (krómlex) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кро̏млек m, кро̏млех m Roman: krȍmlek (sh) m, krȍmleh m Slovak: kromlech m Spanish: crómlech (es) m, crónlech m Welsh: cromlech f

Further reading

• Dolmen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Welsh

Etymology

From crom (“bowed, arched”, feminine of crwm) +‎ llech (“flat stone”).

First element is a Germanic borrowing (compare Irish crom (“bent over”)) from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz; second element is from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɔmlɛχ/

Noun

cromlech f (plural cromlechi)

1. cromlech (Welsh dolmen or underground tomb)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cromlech	gromlech	nghromlech	chromlech
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• The Journal of Indo-European Studies (1999)