craig

Variant of crag.

craig (plural craigs)

1. (Scotland) A rocky crag.

• craig flounder

• Graci, Agric., argic, cigar, agric.

Of Celtic origin; compare Scottish Gaelic creag, Irish creag, Welsh craig, Manx creg. Cognate with English crag.

craig (plural craigs)

1. rock
2. cliff
3. crag

Of Celtic origin, possibly from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).

Related Celtic descendants include Scots craig, Scottish Gaelic creag, Irish creag, Manx creg.

• Rhymes: -ai̯ɡ

craig f (plural creigiau, diminutive creigen)

1. rock
2. cliff
3. crag
4. reef

• creigafal m (“cotoneaster”)
• creigfa f (“rocky place”)
• creigiog (“craggy”, adjective)

• Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
• Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
• Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84