krā(u)- : krǝu- : krū̆ -

    krā- : krǝu- : krū̆ -

    [u]English meaning: to heap up, put together; heap; roof

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “aufeinander, auf einen Haufen legen, zudecken, verbergen”

    Material: O.Ir. cráu, cró m. ‘stall, cottage, shack, shed” (*krǝu̯ o-), Welsh craw m. ‘stall”, Corn. crow, Bret. kraou ds.; Lith. kráuju, króviau, kráuti “aufeinanderlegen, häufen, packen, laden”; Ltv. kŕaũnu (kŕauju), kŕãvu, kŕaũt “häufen”; Iter. Lith. kráustyti, Ltv. kŕaũstît “häufen”, kravât “ snatch “, krauja, kŕava, kŕuva “ cairn, pile of stones set up as a memorial or mark of some kind “; Lith. krūvà (acc. krũva) “heap”, kriáutė, kráutė “Bodenraum”; O.Bulg. krovъ “roof” (*krǝu̯ o-), ablaut. kryjǫ, kryti “cover, hũllen, conceal” etc.; with s-extension: Russ. krūša “roof”, Serb. krîšom adv. “ clandestine “ (etc., also:) O.Ice. hreysar pl. f., hreysi n., besides Nor. rūsa, N.Ger. rūse “heap”; O.Ice. hraun n. “ cairn, pile of stones set up as a memorial or mark of some kind, steinerner ground”. Auf krü- based on perhaps Ltv. krãju, krât “gather, collect, häufen”, O.Bulg. (with präsensbildendem d) kradǫ, krasti ‘steal”. Labial extension (-bh-): Gk. κρύπτω “verberge”, κρυφῆ “ clandestine “ under likewise, κρύβδην ds.; with p-extension (compare above κρύπτω) Ltv. krâpju, krâpu, krâpt ‘steal, cheat, deceive”, Lith. krópti ‘steal”; about Goth. hrōt and O.E. hrōf “roof” see under kred- and k̂rapo-, also Mũhlenbach-Endzelin Ltv.-D. Wb. II 269; Toch. В kraup-, В krop- “gather, collect”; compare also k̂lep-; for O.Ice. hraukr, Ir. cruach “heap” under likewise, die an sich a k-extension our root deriving could, s. eine other interpretation under sker-, skereu- “turn”. In same sense dubious is O.N. skrūf n. “aufgestapelter heap”, skrūfr m. ‘schopf”, Nor. dial. skrauv ‘schaumgipfel”, etc. (hätten bewegliches s-). Dental extensions shine, appear, seem: O.Ice. hrauð f. poet. “Brũnne”, O.E. hréad f. “jewellery”; O.Ice. hrjōða “cover, adorn”, O.E. hréodan ds. (compare Lith. kráudinu “lasse laden?”) besides hyrst m. “jewellery, armament, armor”, O.H.G. hrust m. ds., O.H.G. (h)rusten “rũsten”.

    [u]References: WP. I 477, Trautmann 139, 140.