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発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: krŏft, IPA^(key): /kɹɒft/
• (General American) enPR: krôft, IPA^(key): /kɹɔft/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) enPR: krŏft, IPA^(key): /kɹɑft/
• 韻: -ɒft

語源 1

The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”),^[1] from 古期英語 croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain,^[2][3] but possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”); see also crop. The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch kroft, krocht, crocht (“high かつ dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland または pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”).^[2]

The verb is derived from the noun.^[4]

名詞

croft (複数形 crofts)

1. An enclosed piece of land, usually small and arable and used for small-scale food production, and often with a dwelling next to it; in particular, such a piece of land rented to a farmer (a crofter), especially in Scotland, together with a right to use separate pastureland shared by other crofters.

   Synonym: quillet

   • 1530: Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy (in a lease to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour)

     ...to haue set and for malis and service...the four markland of Kincrakin...with the croft of Polgreyich and the croft that Ewin M'Ewin was wount to haue...

   • 1819 September 19​, John Keats, “To Autumn”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 139:

     Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft / The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

派生語

• goodman's croft

動詞

croft (三人称単数 現在形 crofts, 現在分詞 crofting, 過去形および過去分詞形 crofted)

1. (intransitive) To do agricultural work on one or more crofts.
2. (transitive, archaic) To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.

派生語

• crofter
• crofting

語源 2

From Middle English croft, crofte, croufte, crufte (“crypt; vault”), from 古期英語 cruft,^[5] from Latin crupta, crypta (“crypt; vault”),^[6] from Ancient Greek κρυπτή (kruptḗ), feminine form of κρῠπτός (kruptós, “concealed, hidden; secret”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to conceal, hide; to obscure”) (further etymology unknown) + -ος (-os). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch croft, crocht, crochte, crogt, cruft, crufte (modern Dutch krocht (“underground cavity, cave; underground vault, crypt”)), Middle Low German krucht, kruft (“crypt”), Old High German cruft (Middle High German kruft (“cave; crypt”)).^[5] Doublet of grotto and crypt.

名詞

croft (複数形 crofts) (archaic)

1. An underground chamber; a crypt, an undercroft.
2. A cave or cavern.

派生語

• undercroft

語源 3

A variant of carafe.^[7]

名詞

croft (複数形 crofts)

1. (archaic) A carafe.

参照

Further reading

• croft (land) on Wikipedia.
• croft (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.
• “croft” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

アナグラム

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