different between wales vs crwth

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /we?lz/
• Rhymes: -e?lz
• Homophones: wails, whales (in accents with wine-whine merger)

Noun

wales

1. plural of wale

Verb

wales

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale

Anagrams

• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals

Finnish

Etymology

< Wales

Noun

wales

1. Welsh (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• kymri
• walesin kieli

Middle English

Noun

wales

1. plural of wale (“planking, welt”)

Scots

Noun

wales

1. plural of wale

Verb

wales

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of wale

English

Alternative forms

• crowd, cruth, crowth, crouth

Etymology

From earlier crowd, from Middle English crowde, reinforced by and cognate to Welsh crwth; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?u?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?u??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

crwth (plural crwths)

1. (historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.

Synonyms

• chrotta
• rote

Derived terms

• crowder
• Crowder (surname)

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

References

• 1910, The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 513

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kruttos (“round thing”), perhaps related to Latvian kr?tis (“breast, bust”), from Proto-Indo-European *kr??t; but it could instead be loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate. Possibly related to Proto-Celtic *krundis (“round”). Compare Old Irish crott (“harp, lute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kru??/

Noun

crwth m (plural crythau)

1. (music) crwth; fiddle, violin, viol
2. purring (of a cat)
3. hump, hunch on the back, convexity; hunchback; hunchbacked, rounded, bent, convex
4. anything of round or bulging shape, especially a vessel, basket, box

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “crwth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “crwth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language