The story
- Latin · derived fromērīcius
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*ērīciōnem
- Old Northern French · derived fromirechon
- Middle English · inherited fromyrchoun
- English todayurchin
From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ērīcius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.
Words from the same roots
Latinērīcius all →
ericius
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.