English
scathe
Scathe comes from Old Norse skaði ‘damage, harm’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *skaþô.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skaþô‘damage, scathe’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350skaði‘damage, harm’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scath
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1588–1593scathe
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skaþô‘damage, scathe’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350skaði‘damage, harm’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scath
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1588–1593scathe
Earliest quotation: c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, London: […] Iohn Danter: “Therefore great Lords bee as your titles vvitnes, Imperious,…”
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *skaþô
Today it means
noun Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skaþô / scathe