Etymograph

English

shrinker

From shrink + -er.

Formed from shrink + -er

Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną ‘to shrink, pull together, shrivel’

Old English sċrincan ‘to shrink’

Middle English schrynken ‘to shrivel up or wrinkle’

English shrink

Today it means

noun Something that makes something else shrink.

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

Etymograph / shrinker