English
scraping
Scraping comes from Middle English scrapinge.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scrapinge
- Englishearliest quotation 1987scraping
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scrapinge
- Englishearliest quotation 1987scraping
Earliest quotation: 1987, Joan Colebrook, In the Cubicle: “[…] the tables in the refectory would be laid…”
Formed from scrape + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- ‘to engrave’
Proto-Germanic *skrapōną ‘to scrape, scratch’
Old Norse skrapa ‘to scrape, scratch’
Middle English scrapen ‘to scrape’
English scrape
Every English word from Middle English scrapinge
Today it means
noun The sound or action of something being scraped.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English scrapinge / scraping