Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To make a croak sound. · To utter in a low, hoarse voice. · To make its vocal sound. · To die.
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat. · The call of a frog or toad. · The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
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