Words and Proper Names

Revises the corresponding entries in DIL and concludes that all meanings derive from one of three basic words cruë, crú, cráo. Deals in particular with: 1. OIr. cruë ‘hoof’; 2. OIr. cráo ‘enclosure’, (a) ‘socket, hoop (of lance), eye (of needle)', (b) ‘box, container’; 3. OIr. croüd, (a) croüd ‘bringing into, caring for in, an enclosure’, (b) EModIr. crúdh ‘collecting’, (c) EModIr. crúdh ‘milking’, (d) MIr. ?crúdh ‘plundering’; 4. OIr. crú ‘gore, blood’; 5. OIr. cró ‘wound; death; wergild’, (a) cró ‘wound’, (b) ‘violent death’, (c) ‘wergild’; 6. Later Ir. cró ‘inheritable property’, (a) cró ‘inheritable property’, (b) cro[dh]aighe ‘heir’.