cromlech

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɒmlɛk/|/-lək/|/-ləx/|/-lɛx/    美 /ˈkɹɑmˌlɛk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of stone circle (“a prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle”), especially one located in Brittany, France.
  2. synonym of altar tomb or dolmen (“a prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a (somewhat) flat capstone lying horizontally on two or more upright stones”), especially one located in Wales, but also in England (chiefly Cornwall and Devon) or Ireland. UK,Wales
    — 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.

词形变化

cromlechs plural

词汇关系

近义词
bowing stone

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *krumbos
Proto-Brythonic *krum
Middle Welsh crwm
Welsh crom
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥keh₂der.
Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā
Proto-Brythonic *llex
Middle Welsh llech
Welsh llech
Welsh cromlechbor.
English cromlech
Borrowed from Welsh cromlech, from crom (the feminine singular form of crwm (“bent, bowed, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *krumbos (“bent, crooked”) and Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”); further etymology uncertain) + llech (“flagstone, slab of stone”) (ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā (“(flat) stone”) and Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)).
Sense 1 (“stone circle”) is from Breton cromlec'h, krommlec'h probably from Welsh cromlech: see above.
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