Middle English Dictionary Entry
crolling ger.
Entry Info
Forms | crolling ger. Also crollinge, crulling, croulinge, crauling. |
Etymology | Cp. crǒulen tremble, shake. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. grolling.
1.
A rumbling of the bowels, growling.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)229a/a : Herbes of mores and of mareys..breediþ swellyng and vngulyng and crullyng [L inflationem et rugitum] in þe guttes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)317b/a : Methe..bredeþ swellynge and crollynge [L rugitus] in þe wombe.
- a1413 *Treat.Med.in Norri Dict.Med.(Cai 176/97)113 (pg. 262) : It signifieþ..swellyng in þe wombe with crawlyng in þe guttys.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy in Norri Dict.Med.(Roy 17.D.1)95vb (pg. 262) : If it [rawe humour] holde him abouten þe myddes of þe vrin, it seiþ sekenesse of the stomak..wiþ disposicion toward..roulynge and crowlynge in the guttes.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy in Norri Dict.Med.(Roy 17.D.1)106rb (pg. 262) : When she schal slepen ȝif here to drynk a drynk þat is callede in phisik mellicratum..and if sche fele grete crowlynge and rolyinge and peyne in here wombe, sche hath conceyuede.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: It seems that almost any combination of g- or c-, -r-, and -l- with a back vowel can mean 'to growl or rumble', and it is almost arbitrary how many entries one regards this combination as representing. MED has chosen to lump the forms beginning with g- under the single verb grollen, and the corresponding verbal nouns under a single gerund entry, grollinge ger. For the forms beginning with c-, see (for the verb), croulen v. and (for the verbal noun) crolling ger., -- cp. OED's slightly different choices, sv. growl v. and grolling; crowl crowling; gurl and curl. The influence of both L gurgul- (cp. ME gurguling ger.) and F grul-, grol- (gruler) appears relevant thoughout the group.