cro
English
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɹoʊ/
Etymology 1
Blend of Crip (“a member of the Crips gang”) + bro; however, the word does not necessarily refer to a member of the Crips.
Noun
cro (plural cros)
Related terms
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cnó, from Proto-Celtic *knūs (compare Welsh cnau (“nuts”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.
Derived terms
- cro almon, cro Greagagh (“almond”)
- cro bainney (“coconut”)
- cro beetyl (“betel nut”)
- cro Brasillagh (“Brazil nut”)
- cro cabbil, cro souney (“horse chestnut”)
- cro cashtal (“castle nut”)
- cro cleashagh (“wing nut”)
- cro coull, cro keylley mooar, cro sharroo (“hazelnut, filbert, cobnut”)
- cro darree (“oak-apple, acorn”)
- cro faih (“beech nut”)
- cro frangagh, galchro (“walnut”)
- cro-ghone (“nut-brown”)
- cro jinshar (“gingernut”)
- cro kytchinagh (“nutmeg”)
- cro shey-lhiatteeagh (“hexagonal nut”)
- cro Spaainagh (“(edible) chestnut”)
- cro sponk (“molucca nut”)
- cro teayst (“doughnut”)
- cro thallooin (“peanut, ground nut, monkey nut”)
- cro towlit (“tommy nut”)
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