Etymology

crevis

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Today it means: The crayfish. Full definition →

Middle English crevis ← Old French crevice
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromcrevice“crayfish”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromcrevis
  3. English todaycrevis

From Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice (“crayfish”). Doublet of crevette, crayfish, crawfish, and Krebs.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishcrevis all →

crayfish

Old Frenchcrevice all →

crayfish

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.