screawa

Old English

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to shorten, cut”)[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃræ͜ɑː.wɑ/

Noun

sċrēawa m (nominative plural sċrēawan)

shrew

Declension

Declension of screawa (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sċrēawa	sċrēawan
accusative	sċrēawan	sċrēawan
genitive	sċrēawan	sċrēawena
dative	sċrēawan	sċrēawum

Descendants

English: shrew

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scrēawa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shrew”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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