Noun: schrewe
| Sg. | schrewe |
| Pl. | schrewes; schrewen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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¶ Bote Lucıfer louweſt. liȝþ of hem alle. / ffoꝛ pꝛuide þᵗ he put out. his peyne haþ non ende. / And alle þᵗ wrong woꝛchen. wende þei schulen / After heoꝛe deþ day. and dwellen wᵗ þat schrewe. (And Lucifer lies the lowest of all of them, / due to the pride he displayed, his pain is unending; / and anyone who commits wrongdoing will go / after their dying day and dwell with that devil.) [c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 1]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 395, verso, column 1; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]
Nouns inflected like schrewe
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sċrēawa (“shrew”), from Proto-West Germanic *skrauwō, from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-. See: Old English Nouns '
sċrēawa', Old English Nouns '
sċrēawa'.
Verbs referencing "schrewe"
English Nouns
shrew.
Translations