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cromlech (KROM-lek) - n., a dolmen in Wales, either a) a table-stone tomb or b) a group of megaliths, sometimes arranged in a circle or in concentric circles.
As a word for a circle of megaliths, it has been applied more broadly than Wales in other languages, but generally in English it is very region-specific. This one in Gwynedd County, Wales, fits all languages:
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The word's from Welsh, not surprisingly, from crom, feminine of crwm, arched + llech, (flat) stone -- so an arch made with a flat stone, as shown in dolmen.
---L.
As a word for a circle of megaliths, it has been applied more broadly than Wales in other languages, but generally in English it is very region-specific. This one in Gwynedd County, Wales, fits all languages:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
The word's from Welsh, not surprisingly, from crom, feminine of crwm, arched + llech, (flat) stone -- so an arch made with a flat stone, as shown in dolmen.
---L.
