different between corncrake vs crake

English

Alternative forms

• corn crake
• corn-crake

Etymology

corn +? crake

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??nkre?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?rn?kre?k/

Noun

corncrake (plural corncrakes)

1. A bird of the rail family, Crex crex, that breeds in meadows and arable farmland across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter.

Synonyms

• landrail

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• Crake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?e?k/

Etymology 1

From Middle English crak, crake, from Old Norse kráka (“crow”), from Proto-Germanic *krak-, *kra- (“to croak, caw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?-, itself onomatopoeic.

Noun

crake (plural crakes)

1. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

Derived terms

• Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla)
• brown crake (Amaurornis akool)
• Colombian crake (Neocrex colombianus)
• corncrake (Crex crex)
• (as syn. of corncrake) cracker
• crakeberry (Empetrum spp.}
• spotted crake (Porzana porzana)
• water crake (Porzana porzana; Cinclus spp.; Rallus aquaticus)

Translations

Verb

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

Etymology 2

From Middle English craken, from Old English cracian, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kroakje, West Frisian kreakje, Dutch kraken, Low German kraken, French craquer (< Germanic), German krachen.

Verb

crake (third-person singular simple present crakes, present participle craking, simple past and past participle craked)

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.

Noun

crake (plural crakes)

1. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

Anagrams

• Acker, Kacer, acker, creak