The story
- Old English · derived fromcrump“bent, crooked”
- Middle English · derived fromcrumpen“to curl up, crump”
- Middle English · inherited fromcrumplen
- English todaycrumple
From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishcrump all →
crump
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.