Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skrimpaną

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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

A variant of *skrimbaną, the root final -p- was adopted from the iterative *skrumpōną, from Pre-Germanic *skrembʰ-, related to Lithuanian skrèbti and skrembù (to shrink). [1]

Pronunciation

Verb

*skrimpaną[1]

  1. to contract, to shrink

Inflection

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*skrimman- ~ *skrimpan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448