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Where does “crusted” come from?

crusted (English) comes from English crust, from Middle English cruste, from Anglo-Norman cruste, from Latin crusta, from Proto-Italic *krustos, from Proto-Indo-European krustós, from Proto-Indo-European krews- — to form a crust, begin to freeze.

crusted (English): simple past tense and past participle of crust

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of crust

Ancestry of “crusted”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcrustA more solid, dense or hard layer on a surface or...
2Middle Englishcruste—
3Anglo-Normancruste—
4LatincrustaThe hard surface of a body; rind, shell, crust,...
5Proto-Italic*krustos—
6Proto-Indo-Europeankrustóshardened
7Proto-Indo-Europeankrews-to form a crust, begin to freeze
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