Etymograph

English

Scheat

Scheat comes from Arabic السَاعِد ‘forearm, bracchium’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentالسَاعِد‘forearm, bracchium’literally ‘the forearm’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899Scheat

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Arabicc. 500–presentالسَاعِد‘forearm, bracchium’literally ‘the forearm’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1899Scheat

Earliest quotation: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings: “[This is the Scheat of Tycho, the Palermo Catalogue,…”

Every English word from Arabic السَاعِد

Today it means

name A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

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Etymograph / Arabic السَاعِد / Scheat

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