cromlech

English

Etymology

Welsh, from crom (“bowed, arched”, feminine of crwm) + llech (“flat stone”),

First element is a Germanic borrowing (compare Irish crom (“bent over”)) from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz; second element is from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā, compare German Fläche (“flat surface”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɒmlɛk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɑmlɛk/
• Hyphenation: crom‧lech

Noun

cromlech (plural cromlechs)

1. A dolmen or ancient underground tomb in Wales, usually made with stones disposed in a circular shape.

   Synonym: bowing stone

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.

Translations

Welsh dolmen or underground tomb

• Armenian: կրոմլեխ (hy) (kromlex)
• Basque: harrespil, cromlech (eu), mairu-baratze
• Breton: cromlec'h f
• Catalan: cromlec m
• Cornish: krommlegh f
• Czech: kromlech m
• Esperanto: kromleĥo
• Estonian: kromlehh
• Finnish: cromlech
• French: cromlech (fr) m, cromlec’h (fr) m
• Georgian: კრომლეხი (ḳromlexi)
• German: Kromlech m, Cromlech m
• Greek: κρόμλεχ n (krómlech)
• Irish: liagchiorcal m
• Italian: cromlech (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} クロムレック (kuromurekku)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 크롬렉 (keuromnek)
• Lithuanian: kromlechas m
• Occitan: cromlec m
• Polish: kromlech (pl) m
• Portuguese: cromeleque (pt) m
• Russian: кро́млех (ru) m (krómlex)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кро̏млек m, кро̏млех m

  Roman: krȍmlek (sh) m, krȍmleh m

• Slovak: kromlech m
• Spanish: crómlech (es) m, crónlech m
• Welsh: cromlech f

Further reading

• Dolmen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Welsh cromlech.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kromlet͡ʃ/ [krõm.let͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -omletʃ

Noun

cromlech inan

1. stone circle

   Synonyms: harrespil, mairu-baratze

Declension

Declension of cromlech (inanimate, ending in consonant)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	cromlech	cromlecha	cromlechak
ergative	cromlechek	cromlechak	cromlechek
dative	cromlechi	cromlechari	cromlechei
genitive	cromlechen	cromlecharen	cromlechen
comitative	cromlechekin	cromlecharekin	cromlechekin
causative	cromlechengatik	cromlecharengatik	cromlechengatik
benefactive	cromlechentzat	cromlecharentzat	cromlechentzat
instrumental	cromlechez	cromlechaz	cromlechez
inessive	cromlechetan	cromlechean	cromlechetan
locative	cromlechetako	cromlecheko	cromlechetako
allative	cromlechetara	cromlechera	cromlechetara
terminative	cromlechetaraino	cromlecheraino	cromlechetaraino
directive	cromlechetarantz	cromlecherantz	cromlechetarantz
destinative	cromlechetarako	cromlecherako	cromlechetarako
ablative	cromlechetatik	cromlechetik	cromlechetatik
partitive	cromlechik	—	—
prolative	cromlechtzat	—	—

Further reading

• “cromlech”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Welsh

Etymology

From crom (“bowed, arched”, feminine of crwm) +‎ llech (“flat stone”).

First element is a Germanic borrowing (compare Irish crom (“bent over”)) from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz; second element is from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɔmlɛχ/

Noun

cromlech f (plural cromlechi)

1. cromlech (Welsh dolmen or underground tomb)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cromlech	gromlech	nghromlech	chromlech
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• The Journal of Indo-European Studies (1999)