creuchd

wound, Irish créachd, Old Irish crécht, Welsh craith, scar, creithen, Middle Breton creizenn (do.), *crempto-; root kerp, ker, Lithuanian kerpù, cut, Sanskrit kr$$.pana, sword (Strachan). Stokes gives the Celtic as krekto-s, and Bez. cfs. Norse hrekja, worry. This neglects the é of Gadelic.