crwm
Welsh
Etymology
Probably a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz.
Adjective
crwm (feminine singular crom, plural crwm, equative crymed, comparative crymach, superlative crymaf)
- bowed, bent, curved
Derived terms
- cromell (“arc”)
- cromen (“dome, arch, cupola”)
- cromfach (“bracket, parenthesis”)
- cromgell (“vault”)
- cromlech (“cromlech, dolmen”)
- cromlin (“curve”)
- crwmach (“stoop, hump”)
- crwman (“stooping person”)
- cryman (“sickle”)
- crymder (“camber”)
- crymedd (“convexity, curvature”)
- crymu (“to bow, to stoop”)
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| crwm | grwm | nghrwm | chrwm |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||