Given name & surname · also Pictish

Crail

“fortress”

Crail is a surname from Pictish (ultimately Scottish Gaelic).

Meaning & origin

What it means

Crail goes back to Pictish *cair, meaning “fortress.”

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Where it comes from

Crail comes from Pictish, and ultimately from Scottish Gaelic.

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How it developed

From Pictish *cair (“fortress”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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“bent, crooked”

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“bent, crooked”

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Sibling ideas

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