Etymology

treecreeper

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Today it means: Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Certhia which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Full definition →

English creeper ← Middle English tre ← Old English trēow
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dóru
  2. Proto-Germanic*trewą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*treu
  4. Old Englishtrēow
  5. Middle Englishtre
  6. Englishtree
  7. Englishcreeper
  8. English todaytreecreeper

From tree + creeper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.