Where does “kraze” come from?

kraze (Haitian Creole) comes from French écraser, from Middle French ecraser, from Middle English crasen, from Old Norse krasa — to shatter.

kraze (Haitian Creole): shabby, exhausted

Definitions

  1. shabby, exhausted

Ancestry of “kraze”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchécraserto squash
2Middle Frenchecraserto squash
3Middle EnglishcrasenTo break in pieces; to crack
4Old Norsekrasato shatter
Every word from Old Norse krasa →Every word from Middle English crasen →Every word from Middle French ecraser →