scrutnung
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Old English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Likely from Old High German scrodon, scruton (“inquiry, investigation”) (+ -ung), from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą, said to have come from Proto-Indo-European *skrew-. Related to Old English sċrūtnian (“to examine, scrutinize, consider, investigate”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sċrūtnung f (nominative plural sċrūtnunga)
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References[edit]
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “scrûtnung”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Scrutnung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.