English

acrawl

From a- + crawl.

Formed from a- + crawl

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’

Old Norse krafla

Middle English crawlen

English crawl

Today it means

adj Crawling.

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