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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Pre-Germanic *grm̥bʰnéh₂-, a zero-grade iterative to *krimpaną (“to shrink”).
Pronunciation
Verb
*krumpōną
- to shrink, draw back from
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, singular *krump- against non-singular *krumb-.
Descendants
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN