"croft" meaning in Middle English

See croft in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /krɔft/ Forms: croftes [plural]
Etymology: From Old English croft, possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|croft}} Old English croft, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*kruftaz}} Proto-Germanic *kruftaz, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*grewb-||to curve, bend, crawl}} Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”) Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} croft, {{enm-noun|croftes}} croft (plural croftes)
  1. croft (small field)
    Sense id: en-croft-enm-noun-sfce5vD1
  2. (by extension) enclosure, courtyard Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Agriculture
    Sense id: en-croft-enm-noun-uTEOcQ-j Disambiguation of Agriculture: 9 91 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 38 3 2 1 4 32 0 20 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 4 2 0 3 33 0 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: crofft, croffte, crofte, croofte

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for croft meaning in Middle English (2.4kB)

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "croft"
          },
          "expansion": "English: croft",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: croft"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "croft",
            "3": "craft"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: croft, craft",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: croft, craft"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "croft"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English croft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kruftaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kruftaz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*grewb-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to curve, bend, crawl"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English croft, possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "croftes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "croft",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "croftes"
      },
      "expansion": "croft (plural croftes)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "croft (small field)"
      ],
      "id": "en-croft-enm-noun-sfce5vD1",
      "links": [
        [
          "croft",
          "croft#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 3 2 1 4 32 0 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 4 2 0 3 33 0 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Agriculture",
          "orig": "enm:Agriculture",
          "parents": [
            "Applied sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "enclosure, courtyard"
      ],
      "id": "en-croft-enm-noun-uTEOcQ-j",
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "courtyard",
          "courtyard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) enclosure, courtyard"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/krɔft/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "crofft"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "croffte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "crofte"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "croofte"
    }
  ],
  "word": "croft"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "enm:Agriculture"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "croft"
          },
          "expansion": "English: croft",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: croft"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "croft",
            "3": "craft"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: croft, craft",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: croft, craft"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "croft"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English croft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kruftaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kruftaz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*grewb-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to curve, bend, crawl"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English croft, possibly from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz, from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "croftes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "nouns",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "croft",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "croftes"
      },
      "expansion": "croft (plural croftes)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "croft (small field)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "croft",
          "croft#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "enclosure, courtyard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enclosure",
          "enclosure"
        ],
        [
          "courtyard",
          "courtyard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) enclosure, courtyard"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/krɔft/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "crofft"
    },
    {
      "word": "croffte"
    },
    {
      "word": "crofte"
    },
    {
      "word": "croofte"
    }
  ],
  "word": "croft"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.