Etymograph

English

recrawl

From re- + crawl.

Formed from re- + crawl

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’

Old Norse krafla

Middle English crawlen

English crawl

Today it means

verb To crawl again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “recrawl”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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