Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread). · A small piece of any other solid substance. · A bit, small amount. · Ellipsis of crumb rubber.
To cover with crumbs. · To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.
From Middle English crome, cromme, crumme, crume, from Old English cruma (“crumb, fragment”), from Proto-Germanic *krumô, *krūmô (“fragment, crumb”). The b is unetymological, as in limb, and first appeared in the mid-15th century, influenced by crumble and words such as dumb, numb, and thumb. Cognate with Dutch kruim (“crumb”), Low German Krome, Krume (“crumb”), German Krume (“crumb”), Danish krumme (“crumb”), Swedish dialectal krumma (“crumb”), Swedish in kråm (“crumbs, giblets”), Icelandic krumur (“crumb”), Latin grūmus (“a little heap”).
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