screawa
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to shorten, cut”)[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sċrēawa m (nominative plural sċrēawan)
Declension
[edit]Declension of screawa (weak)
Descendants
[edit]- English: shrew
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scrēawa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shrew”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.