Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skraudō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *skraudaną (“to shred”) +‎ *-ō.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈskrɑu̯.ðɔː/

Noun

*skraudō f

cut, crack
piece, shred

Inflection

Declension of *skraudō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*skraudō	*skraudôz
vocative	*skraudō	*skraudôz
accusative	*skraudǭ	*skraudōz
genitive	*skraudōz	*skraudǫ̂
dative	*skraudōi	*skraudōmaz
instrumental	*skraudō	*skraudōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *skraudu
- Old English: sċrēad
  - Middle English: shrede, shred
    - Scots: screid, skreid, schred, schreid
    - English: shred
- Old Frisian: skrēd
- Old Dutch: *scrōda
  - Middle Dutch: schrôde
    - Dutch: schroot
- Old High German: scrōt
  - Middle High German: schrōt, schrāt
    - German: Schrot
    - Luxembourgish: Schrout
- → Old French: escroe, escrehue, escroue, escrouwe, escrowe
  - Middle French: escroue
    - French: écrou m
  - → Middle English: scrowe, scrouwe, scrawe, skrowe, skrau
    - English: scrow (obsolete)
    - Middle Scots: scrow
      - Scots: scrow
  - → English: escrow (via Law French)
Old Norse: skrjóðr

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*skraudan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447: “*skrauda/ō-”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*skraudan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447: “*skrauda/ō-”

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