crabbe
See also: Crabbe
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English crabba, from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/
Noun
Derived terms
References
- “crab(be, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
Etymology 2
Of Germanic origin, perhaps influenced by sense 1 or the adjective crabbed and altered from Scots and northern English scrab, of the same meaning, plausibly ultimately from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkrab(ə)/, /ˈskrab(ə)/
References
- “crab(be, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
- “scrabbe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-07.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Norman
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