adj.
WA crokid
'crooked, astray, dishonest; sinuous' (Modern English crooked)
PGmc Ancestor
?*krōk-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
krókr ‘hook, anything crooked’
(ONP krókr (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far krókur, Icel krókur, Norw krôk, Dan krog, Sw krok
OE Cognate
OE gecrōcod 'crooked, bent'
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
BB1b
Attested as gecrōcod in late OE (see Peters 87, SPS 287), and then common and widespread from ME. In place-names, reflexes of the noun, < ON krókr or OE *crōc and usually meaning ‘land in the bend of a river’, are mainly N and E (as far south as Cmb.), but one ambiguous form has been cited from Sus. (see EPNE).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 653; Cl 181, 1697; WA 5423