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Kra the further history of the word we must at all events proceed from the latter meaning ( is the   for ‘sick’);  krankr, ‘sick,’ is borrowed from  (*krakkr must have been the native form); a genuine  krangr, ‘feeble,’ also occurs. The common West  kranka- is connected with  cringan,  ‘to writhe like one mortally wounded, salt in fight, fall with a crash’ (thus closely allied in meaning to  cranc, ‘infirm, tottering’). With the same root kring, krink, are connected, ‘circular pad for the head,’  crank, to crankle, crinkle. —  , ‘to make ill,’ from krenken, ‘to torment, grieve,’  ‘to lessen, humiliate.’   ,, ‘wreath,’ from the  and late  kranz, ; a specifically  word, which in this form has passed within historic times into other  languages ( krans,  krans). Perhaps allied to granth, ‘to tie (a knot), bind,’ granthi-s,, ‘knot,’ or even with  grandis, , ‘bracelet, tyre of a wheel’ ( grůdi, ‘wood for framing,’ from the base *grandai).   ', ', of.   ' (1.), ',, from the  krâpfe ( krâpe), , ‘a kind of pastry, fritter';  chrâpfo, ,  identical with the following word; so called from the hooked form of the pastry.

 (2.),, ‘cramp, hook, dung-fork,’ from krâpfe, krâpe, , ‘hook, cramp,’  chrâpfo, ‘hook,’ also ‘claw, talon’; the  form. *knêppa is wanting, nor is the word found in the other languages; before the  permutation of consonants it passed in the form grappo, grapo into  ( grappa, ‘cramp, talon,’  grappin, ‘grapnel’). further craple, ‘claw, talon.’ It is doubtful whether  chrâcho ( krêkka),, ‘hooked instrument,’ and  kraki, , ‘stake,’ are allied. The stem of appears in a nasal form in  chrampf, ‘curved,’ and  chrampfa, chrampho,, ‘iron hook’ (  crampon, ‘cramp, borrowed from ). Consequently is connected with.    (1.),, ‘dosser,’ from kręzze, also kratte, , ‘basket’;  chręzzo and chratto, , ‘basket.’ Perhaps the word is allied, on account of the Mid -  variant krenze, with. On the other hand, chratto and  kratte suggest  cradol,  cradle, and also  krat,  crœt,  cart ( ‘cart-basket’?),  crate. With κάρταλλος, ‘basket,’ these cognates cannot be connected.

 (2.),, ‘itch,’ from kretz, kratz, allied to.  ,, from the  kratzen, kretzen,  chrazzôn, ‘to scratch’ (allied to  krota, ‘to dig in,’  gakrutôn, ‘to grind’); previous to the  permutation of consonants *kratton, whence  grattare,  gratter, ‘to scratch.’. ,, ‘to tickle,’ from the  krouwen,  chrouwôn, krouwen;  *kraujôn, or rather *kraggwôn, and other correspondences are wanting. With this is connected  chrouwil,  kröuwel,, ‘three-pronged fork, talon, claw,’ to which Swiss and  , ‘fork with hooked prongs’;   kraauwel, , ‘pitchfork, fork, claw, finger-nail,’ allied to kraauwen, ‘to scratch.’ Connected with. ,, ‘frizzled,’ from krûs, ‘curled, frizzled’; unknown to all the  languages; retained in  kruis,  kroes, ‘dishevelled, entangled, frizzled, stubborn’;  crûs, ‘frizzled, angry.’ The genuine  origin and great antiquity of  are certified by the  parallel cognates,  krol (ll), ‘curly, lock of hair,’  krul, ‘lock,’ krullig, ‘frizzled, curly,’  crul, ‘curly.’.  ,, ‘pitcher with a lid,’ from krûse, , ‘pitcher, earthenware drinking vessel’;  *chrûsa, ;  kruise,  *crûse,  crûse,  cruse;  krús, ‘pitcher with a lid.’ It is not immediately connected with. That the word is of foreign origin seems certain, yet the ultimate source cannot be κρωσσός, ‘pitcher.’ See the following word.   ,, ‘top,’ with the more frequent variant , a corrupt form which arose from connecting with the circular  movement of a top;  *kriusel,  krûsel, , ‘top,’ a  of , hence  ‘small pitcher.’  the  term  for ‘top.’   ,, ‘herb, vegetable, weed,’ from<section end="Kraut" />