< Reconstruction:Old English
Reconstruction:Old English/croc
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“something bent”). Cognate with Swedish krok (“crook”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kroːk/
Noun
*crōc m
- crook, hook
Descendants
- Middle English: crok, croke
- Scots: cruke, creuk, crewk, cruik
- English: crook
- → Irish: crúca