Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/krumô

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

From Proto-Indo-European *grū-mo- (“something scraped together, lumber, junk; to claw, scratch”).

Noun

*krumô f

1. crumb, fragment

Descendants

• Old English: cruma
  • Middle English: crome, cromme, crume, crumme
    • Scots: crum
    • English: crumb
• Old Saxon:
  • Middle Low German: krome, krume
    • Low German: Krume, Krome
• Old High German:
  • Middle High German: krume
    • German: Krume, Krümel
• Old Norse:
  • Icelandic: krumur
  • Swedish: krumma (dialectal); inkråm (?)
  • Danish: krumme