croup

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop.