screawa
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.