Etymology

scrap

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Today it means: A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. Full definition →

Middle English scrappe ← Old Norse skrap ← Proto-Germanic *skrapōną
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scrap · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*skreb-
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skrapōną
  3. Old Norse · derived fromskrap
  4. Middle English · derived fromscrappe
  5. English todayscrap

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).

scrap · noun, verb2

Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skrapōną all →

scrapeScherf

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