Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances. · To produce a creaking sound with. · To suffer from strain or old age.
From Middle English creken, criken, metathesis of Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crash, crack, creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to make a sound, cry hoarsely”), ultimately of imitative origin. Compare also Old English crǣccettan, crācettan (“to croak”), Albanian grykë (“throat”). More at crack.
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