English

Sheet

Sheet comes from Old English sceat ‘corner’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *skautaz.

Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skautaz‘corner’reconstructed
Old Englishc. 450–1150sceat‘corner’
EnglishtodaySheet

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skautaz‘corner’reconstructed
Old Englishc. 450–1150sceat‘corner’
EnglishtodaySheet

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- ‘to throw, shoot, pursue, rush’

shut, scoot, scud, 3 more

Today it means

name A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England, previously in Petersfield parish (OS grid ref SU7524).

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skautaz / Sheet

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