different between crame vs craye

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

From Scots crame, craim, from Middle Dutch kraeme or Middle Low German krame; both from Old High German kr?m (“merchant tent; tent cloth”), probably ultimately borrowed from Slavic, such as Old Church Slavonic gram? (gram?, “pub, inn”) or ?r?m? (?r?m?, “tent”).

Compare West Frisian kream, Dutch kraam, German Low German Kraam, German Kram, Swedish kram, Icelandic kram.

Noun

crame (plural crames)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A merchant's booth; a shop or tent where goods are sold; a stall
2. (chiefly Scotland) A parcel of goods for sale; a peddler's pack; a kit

References

Etymology 2

Variant of cram.

Verb

crame

1. Archaic spelling of cram.

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, cream, crema, macer, recam

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: crament, crames

Verb

crame

1. first-person singular present indicative of cramer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cramer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cramer
5. second-person singular imperative of cramer

English

Etymology

French craie (apparently unrelated to craie (“chalk”)).

Noun

craye (plural crayes)

1. A type of vessel, which was notably used in Denmark and Sweden

Translations

Anagrams

• Carey, Cayer

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *kr?ia, from Proto-Germanic *kr??.

Noun

crâye f

1. crow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: kraai
  • Afrikaans: kraai
• Limburgish: krej

Further reading

• “craye”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “craeye”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page craeye