shoten

Middle English

Alternative forms

• shuten, sheten

Etymology

From Old English sċēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃoːtən/, /ˈʃɔːtən/, /ˈʃuːtən/, /ˈʃeːtən/

Verb

shoten

1. to shoot

Conjugation

Conjugation of shoten (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) shoten, shote
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	shote	shoted
2nd-person singular	shotest	shotedest
3rd-person singular	shoteth	shoted
subjunctive singular	shote
imperative singular		—
plural1	shoten, shote	shoteden, shotede
imperative plural	shoteth, shote	—
participles	shotynge, shotende	shoted, yshoted

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: shoot, skeet
• Scots: schute, schuit, schote, schoot, schete
• Yola: zhoult

References

• “shẹ̄ten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2024-08-11.