escroe

Old French

Alternative forms

• escrehue, escroue, escrouwe, escrowe

Etymology

From Frankish *skrōda (“piece”). Attested from ca. 1200.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /esˈkrɔə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /eˈkruə/

Noun

escroe oblique singular, f (oblique plural escroes, nominative singular escroe, nominative plural escroes)

1. piece, strip (of something)
2. bit of parchment, note, register

Descendants

• Middle French: escroue
  • French: écrou m
• → Middle English: scrowe, scrouwe, scrawe, skrowe, skrau
  • English: scrow (obsolete)
  • Middle Scots: scrow
    • Scots: scrow
• → English: escrow (via Law French)

References

• “escroe2”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*skrôda”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 136