crùb
Gaelic (Scots)
verb
Definitions
- duck, squat, crouch
- stoop, bend
- contract, shrink, cringe
- crawl, creep
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse krjúpa (creep) derived from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną (creep, twist, crawl).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*kreupaną
Gloss
creep, twist, crawl
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Eurocreep English
- becreep English
- creep English
- creepage English
- creepazoid English
- creepdar English
- creeper English
- creepest English
- creepeth English
- creepfest English
- creephole English
- creepify English
- creeping English
- creepmeter English
- creepmouse English
- creepo English
- creepoid English
- creepshot English
- creepsome English
- creeptacular English
- creeptastic English
- creepware English
- creepy English
- cripple English
- increep English
- outcreep English
- undercreep English
- *ger- Proto-Indo-European
- *gerb- Proto-Indo-European
- krype Norwegian Bokmål
- *kreupandz Proto-Germanic
- *kreupaną Proto-Germanic
- krypa Norwegian Nynorsk
- creopan Old English
- crēopan Old English
- crepen Middle English
- krjúpa Old Norse
- kryb Danish
- krybe Danish
- krjúpa Icelandic
- *krūfan Old High German
- crùbach Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- crùbag Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- crùban Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- krúpa Faroese
- *crūpan Old Dutch
- kriopan Old Saxon
- krypa Old Swedish
- krypa, krȳpa Old Swedish