Proto-Germanic

*skeutaną

‘to shoot, dash’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Germanic *skeutaną.

3 English words in this record descend from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, most familiar first.

• shoot ← scheten ← scēotan ← *skeutan
• scoot ← skjóta
• skite ← *skiten ← skjóta

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skeutaną