crwth

[ krooth ]

/ kruθ /

crowd².

Origin of crwth

1830–40; < Welsh; cognate with Irish cruit harp, lyre

The earliest representation of the crwth yet discovered dates from the Carolingian period.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 |Various
The instrument is well known to this day in Wales as the crwth.

Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes |Lina Eckenstein
They make use of three instruments, the harp, the pipe, and the crwth or crowd (chorus).

The Description of Wales |Geraldus Cambrensis
The word is possibly of Celtic origin (Welsh crwth) and a doublet of the archaic crowd, or crowth, a fiddle.

The Romance of Names |Ernest Weekley

This instrument became the crwth, and there was no further development.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 |Various

crwth

/ (kruːθ) /

an ancient stringed instrument of Celtic origin similar to the cithara but bowed in later types

Welsh; compare Middle Irish crott harp