The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*swer-“to buzz, hum”
- Latin · borrowed fromsusurrus“a humming, whispering”
- English todaysusurrus
Borrowed from Latin susurrus (“a humming, whispering”); reduplication of imitative Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsusurrus all →
susurrous
Proto-Indo-European*swer- all →
answerseriousswearswarmsweer
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.