Where does “croning” come from?
croning (English) comes from English crone, from Middle English crone, from Middle English crane, from Old French cran, from Medieval Latin cranium, from Ancient Greek κρανίον, from Ancient Greek κάρα, from Proto-Hellenic *kárahə.
croning (English): A Wiccan or feminist ceremony that recognizes older women as wise and experienced "crones"
Definitions
- A Wiccan or feminist ceremony that recognizes older women as wise and experienced "crones"
Ancestry of “croning”, step by step
croning traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English crone
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crone | An old woman; An archetypal figure, a Wise Woman;... |
| 2 | Middle English | crone | Alternative form of crane |
| 3 | Middle English | crane | crane; cranium |
| 4 | Old French | cran | — |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | cranium | skull |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κρανίον | skull; head |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κάρα | head, face; the head or top of anything, as of a... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | *kárahə | — |
via English ing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ing | A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river;... |
| 2 | Middle English | ing | — |
| 3 | Old English | ing | meadow, water meadow, ing |
| 4 | Old Norse | eng | meadow |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | angijō | A low lying meadow in a valley or near a river |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂énkos | curve, bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |