scrutnung
Old English
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editEtymology
editLikely from Old High German scrodon, scruton (“inquiry, investigation”) (+ -ung), from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą, said to have come from Proto-Indo-European *skrew-. Related to Old English sċrūtnian (“to examine, scrutinize, consider, investigate”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsċrūtnung f (nominative plural sċrūtnunga)
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editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “scrûtnung”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Scrutnung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.