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crinkle (KRING-kuhl) - v., to fold, crease, crumple, or wrinkle; to make slight sharp sounds, rustle.
Plus a noun of both the action and the sound. This frequentive is obscured not by sound change but through loss of the stem: it goes back to Middle English form crinklen, to bend/buckle, from reconstructed Old English *crinclian, frequentive form of crincan, to bend/yield, which has not directly survived in Modern English but is, via a few alterations, the ancestor of cringe.
And that's a week of frequentive verbs, which has been wild -- def doing more of this.
---L.
Plus a noun of both the action and the sound. This frequentive is obscured not by sound change but through loss of the stem: it goes back to Middle English form crinklen, to bend/buckle, from reconstructed Old English *crinclian, frequentive form of crincan, to bend/yield, which has not directly survived in Modern English but is, via a few alterations, the ancestor of cringe.
And that's a week of frequentive verbs, which has been wild -- def doing more of this.
---L.
