different between wicca vs crone

Finnish

Noun

wicca

1. Wicca (neo-pagan religion)
2. Wiccan (follower of this religion)

Declension

Synonyms

• (religion): wicca-uskonto, wiccalaisuus
• (follower): wiccalainen

Derived terms

• wiccalainen
• wiccalaisuus

Italian

Noun

wicca f (invariable)

1. Wicca

Related terms

• wiccano

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“necromancer, sorcerer”).

Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).

The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", w?glian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wig?n, via Kluge's law becoming *wikk?n. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /?w?t??e/, from *wikkæ, from *wikk?n with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *?n. The palatal -cc- /t??/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.

An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t??/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wit.t???/

Noun

wi??a m (nominative plural wi??an)

1. wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
   • c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue

Declension

Derived terms

• wi??e f

Descendants

• Middle English: wicche; wikke, wikked
  • English: witch; Wicca (borrowing), wicked
  • Scots: wich; wicked, wicket

English

Etymology

From Old French carogne, French charogne (“carrion”). See carrion and crony.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?o?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• Homophone: crosne

Noun

crone (plural crones)

1. (archaic) An old woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old woman

   • But still the crone was constant to her note.

2. An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman.
3. An ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman; a hag.
4. (obsolete) An old ewe.
   • 1573, Tusser Five Hundred Good Points of Husbandry

     In traveling homeward, buy forty good crones, and fat up the bodies of those seely bones

5. (obsolete) An old man, especially one who talks and acts like an old woman.
   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

     A few old battered crones of office.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “crone”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Ceron, Creon, Oncer, necro, necro-, oncer, recon

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch cor?na, from Latin cor?na. Doublet of crune.

Noun

crône f

1. crown, wreath

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• crônen

Descendants

• Dutch: kroon
  • Afrikaans: kroon
  • ? Indonesian: kerun
• Limburgish: kroean

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

crone

1. Alternative form of crane (“crane”)