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Borrowed from Old Norse krjúpa (creep), from Proto-Germanic *kreupaną. Cognate with English creep.

crùb (past chrùb, future crùbaidh, verbal noun crùbadh, past participle crùbte)

  1. duck, squat, crouch
  2. stoop, bend
  3. contract, shrink, cringe
  4. crawl, creep
Participles
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' crùbadh --
Past chrùb chrùbadh
Future crùbaidh crùbar
Conditional chrùbadh crùbtadh
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
crùb chrùb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.