Where does “she-crab” come from?
she-crab (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...
she-crab (English): A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, especially an immature one (as contrasted with a sook)
Definitions
- A female Chesapeake Bay blue crab, especially an immature one (as contrasted with a sook)
Ancestry of “she-crab”, step by step
she-crab traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English crab
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | crab | A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having... |
| 2 | English | carabiner | A metal link with a gate that can open and close,... |
| 3 | German | Karabinerhaken | carabiner, snap hook, snap-link |
| 4 | German | Karabiner | carbine; Karabinerhaken: carabiner |
| 5 | French | carabine | rifle; mistress of a cavalry soldier |
| 6 | French | carabin | carabineer; medical student |
| 7 | French | escarrabin | grave digger |
| 8 | Middle French | scarabée | beetle |
| 9 | Latin | scarabaeus | A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient... |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | κάραβος | a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; a... |
via English she
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | she | The female person or animal previously mentioned... |
| 2 | Middle English | sche | Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she; It;... |
| 3 | Old English | hēo | she |
| 4 | Germanic | *hiju | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | hijō | she; nominative singular feminine of *hiz |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe- | demonstrative particle; here; this, here |