Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skutą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Related to *skeutaną (“to shoot”)

Noun

*skutą n

1. shot

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *skutą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*skutą	*skutō
vocative	*skutą	*skutō
accusative	*skutą	*skutō
genitive	*skutas, *skutis	*skutǫ̂
dative	*skutai	*skutamaz
instrumental	*skutō	*skutamiz

Related terms

• *skutiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *skot
  • Old English: sċot
    • Middle English: shot
      • Scots: schot, schote, schoit
      • English: shot
  • Old Frisian: skot
    • Saterland Frisian: Skoat
    • West Frisian: skot
  • Old Saxon: skot
    • Middle Low German: schot
      • German Low German: Schott
  • Old Dutch: *skot
    • Middle Dutch: schot, scot
      • Dutch: schot
  • Old High German: scoz
    • Middle High German: schoz
      • German: Schoss
      • Yiddish: שאָס (shos)
  • → Old French: escoz, escot
    • Middle French: escot
      • French: écot
• Old Norse: skot
  • Icelandic: skot
  • Faroese: skot
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: skot, skott
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: skott
  • Old Swedish: skut, skot
    • Swedish: skott
  • Danish: skud
    • Norwegian Bokmål: skudd
  • → Scots: scot

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.