crwth
SayKROOTH/kɹuθ/UK/kɹuːθ/
Pluralcrwths
- 1An old Welsh stringed instrument with six strings, played by plucking or by drawing a bow across them.
Like a small wooden instrument you can both pluck like a harp and play with a bow like a violin.
The musician tuned her crwth before the village dance began.
We find in one period crwths, with the strings twanged with the right hand, and stopped above with the left, being held as we hold a violoncello to-day, but being small, on the lap.
1895, John Frederick Rowbotham, The Troubadours and Courts of LoveHere, crwths are old stringed instruments, plucked or played with a bow.Note
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Origin
It comes from the older English word "crowd" and from Welsh "crwth." These go back to an old Celtic word meaning "round thing."