craw – English noun declension

Noun: craw

Singular	craw
Plural	craws

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like craw

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Old Norse *kravi (“neck, collar, gullet, crop of a bird”), of unclear origin (potentially cognate to crop), but historically a variation of kragi, the Norse analog of English crag. If craw and crag are cognates, then ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *kragô or Proto-West Germanic *kragō (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
2. Other Germanic cognates include Swedish kräva (“crop of a bird”), Danish krave (“collar, crop of a bird”); Dutch kraag, Middle Dutch crāghe, Old Dutch kraga; German Kragen, Middle Low German krage, Middle High German krage, Old High German krago (“collar, neck”).
3. See also crag (Etymology 2). See: Old Norse Nouns '*kravi', English Nouns 'crag', Ancient Greek Nouns 'βρόχθος', Latin Nouns 'gurges', Swedish Nouns 'kräva', Danish Nouns 'krave', Dutch Nouns 'kraag', German Nouns 'Kragen'.

Verbs referencing "craw"

Galician Nouns garganta, Spanish Nouns garganta, German Nouns Kragen, Latin Nouns gurges, Swedish Nouns kräva, Swedish Nouns krage, Old Norse Nouns kragi, Ancient Greek Nouns βρόχθος.