screawa

Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to shorten, cut”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃræ͜ɑː.wɑ/

sċrēawa m (nominative plural sċrēawan)

1. shrew

• English: shrew

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “scrēawa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.