Where does “crabling” come from?

crabling (English) comes from English crab, from English carabiner, from German Karabinerhaken, from German Karabiner, from French carabine, from French carabin, from French escarrabin, from Middle French scarabée — a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...

crabling (English): A small, young, or baby crab

Definitions

  1. A small, young, or baby crab

Ancestry of “crabling”, step by step

crabling traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English crab

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcrabA crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having...
2EnglishcarabinerA metal link with a gate that can open and close,...
3GermanKarabinerhakencarabiner, snap hook, snap-link
4GermanKarabinercarbine; Karabinerhaken: carabiner
5Frenchcarabinerifle; mistress of a cavalry soldier
6Frenchcarabincarabineer; medical student
7Frenchescarrabingrave digger
8Middle Frenchscarabéebeetle
9LatinscarabaeusA scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient...
10Ancient Greekκάραβοςa kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a...

via English Ling

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishLingAny of various codlike saltwater fish often used as food by humans, those of the genus Molva, in the family Lotidae
2Middle EnglishlingAny of various varieties of heather or broom
3Old Norselyngheather, ling
4Proto-Germaniclingwąheather, ling
5Proto-Indo-Europeanlengʷʰom
6Proto-Indo-Europeanlengʷʰ-light, agile, nimble; light, not heavy, agile,...
Every word from Ancient Greek κάραβος