Etymograph

English

croup

Croup comes from Old French croupe ‘rump, body’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *kruppaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kruppaz‘body, mass, heap, collection, crop’reconstructed
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350kroppr‘body, trunk, mass’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400croupe‘rump, body’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1808croup

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kruppaz‘body, mass, heap, collection, crop’reconstructed
  2. Old Norsec. 800–1350kroppr‘body, trunk, mass’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400croupe‘rump, body’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1808croup

Earliest quotation: 1808, Walter Scott, (please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter: “So light to the croup the fair lady he…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *grewb- ‘to curve, bend, crawl’

cripple, croft, 6 more

through Proto-Germanic *kruppaz ‘body, mass, heap, collection, crop’

group, crop, mog, 9 more

Another origin of croup

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ker-‘army’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hrōpaną‘to shout’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150hrōpan‘to shout, proclaim’
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500roupen
  5. Scotsc. 1450–presentcroup
  6. Englishtodaysame form

In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home.

Today it means

noun The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *kruppaz / croup

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