Etymology

shrim

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Today it means: To shrink; to shrivel. Full definition →

Middle English *schrymmen ← Old English sċrimman ← Proto-West Germanic *skrimman
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skrimbaną
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*skrimman
  3. Old English · inherited fromsċrimman“shrink, draw up, contract”
  4. Middle English · inherited from*schrymmen
  5. English todayshrim

From Middle English *schrymmen, from Old English sċrimman (“shrink, draw up, contract”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrimman, from Proto-Germanic *skrimbaną.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.