Schramme

German

Etymology

From Middle High German schramme, schramm, cognate to Old English scrama (cf. scramasax), Middle Dutch scramme, Dutch schram (“scratch”), Old Norse skráma (“wound”), Swedish skråma (“scratch”). Possibly related to Middle Irish screm, Welsh cramen (“crust”), Russian крома́ (kromá, “crust”), Latvian kri̇̀mst, Lithuanian krim̃sti (“to gnaw”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Schramme f (genitive Schramme, plural Schrammen)

Eine Schramme

1. graze; scratch

Declension

Declension of Schramme [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Schramme	die	Schrammen
genitive	einer	der	Schramme	der	Schrammen
dative	einer	der	Schramme	den	Schrammen
accusative	eine	die	Schramme	die	Schrammen

Derived terms

• schrammen

Related terms

• Schram

References

• “Schramme”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)