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The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skraudō
2. Frankish · derived from*skrōda“a shred”
3. Old French · derived fromescroe
4. Middle English · inherited fromscrowle
5. English todayscroll

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

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