The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*skrinkwaną“to shrivel, shrink”
- English todayshrivel
First recorded as shriveled (“shrivelled”), probably of North Germanic origin related to dialectal Swedish skryvla (“to wrinkle, shrivel”); perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną (“to shrivel, shrink”) or *skrimpaną (“to shrink”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*skrinkwaną all →
shrug
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.