Etymology

abri

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Today it means: a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof Full definition →

First used First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century.French abri ← Old French abrier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromabrier“to shelter”
  2. French · borrowed fromabri“shelter”
  3. English todayabri

Borrowed from French abri (“shelter”), from Old French abrier (“to shelter”), see below.

First known use, by meaning

  • First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century. a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.