Editing Crail (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Crail'' was recorded in 1148 as ''Cherel'' and in 1153 as ''Karel''.<ref name="pnf">{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Simon |title=Crail |url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=1892 |website=Fife Place-name Data |access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref> The first element is the [[Pictish]] ''*cair'' (cf. Welsh ''caer'') meaning "fort",<ref name="pnf" /> though this word seems to have been borrowed into [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]].<ref name="pnf" /> The second element may be either Gaelic ''ail'', "rocks",<ref name="pnf" /> or more problematically Pictish ''*al''; no certain instance of this word exists in [[P-Celtic]].<ref name="pnf" /> However, if the generic element were Pictish, then this is likely of the specific.<ref name="pnf" />