Etimoloji
[ 'shrimp, esp Southern ' ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English schrimpe ‘shrimp, puny person’, from Proto-Germanic *skrempaz (cf. Middle High German schrimpf ‘scratch’, Norwegian skramp ‘thin horse, thin man’), from *skrempanan (cf. Old English scrimman ‘to shrink’, Middle High German schrimpfen ‘to shrink, dry up’, Swedish skrympa ‘to shrink’), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb, *skr̥mb (cf. Lithuanian skrembti ‘to crust over, stiffen’).