The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*karēn“to complain”
- Old English · inherited fromċeorian“to murmur, grumble, complain”
- Middle English · inherited from*churren
- English todaychurr
Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English *churren, *chirren, *cherren, from Old English ċeorian (“to murmur, grumble, complain”), from Proto-West Germanic *karēn (“to complain”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishċeorian all →
jar
Proto-West Germanic*karēn all →
jar
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.