The story
- Old English · inherited from*edgrōwe“regrowth”
- Middle English · inherited fromedgrow
- English todayedgrow
From Middle English edgrow, edgrowe, from Old English *edgrōwe (“regrowth”), from edgrōwan (“to grow back”), suggested by derivative edgrōwung (“a regrowing, a growing again”), equivalent to ed- + grow.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.