crocca

Old English

Alternative forms

• crohha

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kroggō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrok.kɑ/

Noun

crocca m

1. a crock (earthenware jar)

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	crocca	croccan
accusative	croccan	croccan
genitive	croccan	croccena
dative	croccan	croccum

Descendants

• Middle English: crokke, crok
  • English: crock
  • Scots: crock, croak
  • Yola: kruck
  • → Irish: croca
    • ⇒ Irish: corcán

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “CROCCA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.