English

instrew

Instrew comes from Middle English *instrewen.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1962, Acta radiologica: “Tubercles and granulations with numerous instrewn giant cells of…”

Formed from in- + strew

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *strew- ‘to spread, scatter’

Proto-Germanic *strawjaną ‘to strew’

Proto-West Germanic *strauwjan ‘to strew, to spread out’

Old English strewian ‘to strew, scatter’

Middle English strewen

English strew

Every English word from Middle English *instrewen

verb To strew about; scatter in or upon; spread.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.