Old English · noun
screawa
Normalised sċrēawa
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- IPA
- /ˈʃræ͜ɑː.wɑ/
- Syllables
- ˈʃræ͜ɑː · wɑ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- shrew
Meaning
-
shrew
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to shorten, cut”)
Descendants
shrew
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