English

Scotchman

Inherited from Middle English Scocheman.

Formed from Scotch + man

Old French coche ‘notch’

Middle English scocchen ‘to cut’

Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’

Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’

Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’

Middle English man

English man

Today it means

noun A man from Scotland.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Scotchman