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late Middle English: alteration of obsolete scrow ‘roll’, shortening of escrow.

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From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe(“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda(“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew-(“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker-(“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

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scroll (n.)

c. 1400, "roll of parchment or paper," altered (by association with rolle "roll") from scrowe (c. 1200), from Anglo-French escrowe, Old French escroe "scrap, roll of parchment," from Frankish *skroda "shred" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *skrauth- (source also of Old English screada "piece cut off, cutting, scrap;" see shred (n.)). As an ornament on furniture or in architecture, from 1610s.

scroll (v.)

"to write down in a scroll," c. 1600, from scroll (n.). Sense of "show a few lines at a time" (on a computer or TV screen) first recorded 1981. Related: Scrolled; scrolling.