English
rowcrop
row + crop
Proto-Indo-European *Hreyk- ‘to line up; to arrange’
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Proto-Germanic *raiwō
Proto-West Germanic *raiwu
Old English rǣw ‘row, line’
Middle English rewe ‘row’
English row
Proto-Germanic *kruppaz ‘body, trunk, crop’
Proto-West Germanic *kropp
Old English cropp ‘the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb,…’
Middle English crop
English crop
Today it means
noun A crop to be planted in rows.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rowcrop”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / rowcrop