scrybb

Old English

Etymology

Fom Proto-West Germanic *skrubbiju, from Proto-Germanic *skrubbijō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb- (“to be sharp”), an extended form of *(s)ker- (“to cut”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃrybb/, [ʃryb]

Noun

sċrybb m

  1. underbrush

Descendants

  • Middle English: schrub, schrob, schrobbe, scrub
    • English: shrub

References

  1. ^ “shrub”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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