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cryf.

strong

4 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

adj/krɨːv/North-Wales, standard/krɨː/North-Wales, colloquial/kriːv/South-Wales

  1. strong

  2. tending to constipate, astringent (of medicine or substance)

Where this word comes from

From Middle Welsh cryf, from Proto-Brythonic *krɨβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *kriɸmos (compare Breton kreñv, Cornish krev). corff, a Latin borrowing, is from the same Proto-Indo-European root, *krep- (“body”).

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