English
Scheldt
Scheldt comes from Old English sċeald ‘shallow’.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sċeald‘shallow’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020Scheldt
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sċeald‘shallow’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020Scheldt
Earliest quotation: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light: “Perhaps as a child she watched for his ship…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- ‘to dry out’
Today it means
name A river flowing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English sċeald / Scheldt