Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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.
To do agricultural work on one or more crofts. · To place (cloth, etc.) on the ground in the open air in order to sun and bleach it.
The noun is derived from Middle English croft, crofft, croffte, croofte, crofte (“croft”), from Old English croft (“enclosed field”); further etymology uncertain, 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 and dry land; a field on the downs”), Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of farmland or pasture”), Scots croft, craft (“croft”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentioncroftenm
- Inherited-form mentioncroftang · enclosed field
- Inherited-form mention*kruftazgem-pro · a hill; a curve
- Derivation mention*grewb-ine-pro · to bend; arch, crook, curve
- Cognate mentionkroftdum
- Cognate mentionkrochgml · enclosed piece of farmland or pasture
- Cognate mentioncroftsco
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