Lemizh / English dictionary
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crà. [1]
to make few, little, a bit (relative weight 1⁄4; see unit 7, Weighting numerals – usually with partitive bracket; see unit 8, Cardinal numerals)
crURÌjg. vitamin (⇐ ⇔ crÌ RàjgU. ‘a bit for life’)
Etymology
gender change of
< NLem crumbw‑a ‘2/6’
< LMLem crumbw‑yr, contamination of
< MLem srumbw‑yr ‘few, little’
< OLem srumbw‑
< PLem *tsrumbw‑ ‘of little worth’, u-stem adjective of
< PIE *dʰreu̯bʰ‑ ‘break’ [intr.], crumble’
—with—
< MLem cambr‑yr ‘negligible’
< OLem zhambr‑
< PLem *dzambr‑ ‘few, little’, r-stem adjective of
< PIE *dʰebʰ‑ ‘reduce’
See Ràbv. for information on Ghean weighting numerals.
Cognates
Gk θρύπτω ‘crush, grind’
crà. [2]
Usage notes
Occurs only in the compound vmyjcrÌ. ‘death cap’, lit. ‘underworldly agaric’. Often misinterpreted as ‘a bit of an agaric’ or ‘an agaric not doing much’, which is seen as rather cynical. As an independent word, it is last attested in LMLem as cUrer ‘underworld’ and cUryr ‘underworldly’.
Etymology
< NLem cUr‑a ‘underworldly’
< LMLem, MLem cUr‑yr
< OLem zhür‑ ‘underworld’
< PLem *dzuwr‑ ‘deep’, r-stem adjective of
< PIE *dʰeu̯b‑
Cognates
Eng deep, TochB taupe ‘mine’ (as in mining)