Etymograph

English

sheltron

Sheltron comes from Old English sċieldtruma ‘company of soldiers, phalanx’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- ‘to cut’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kelH-‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150sċieldtruma‘company of soldiers, phalanx’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scheltroun
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022sheltron

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)kelH-‘to cut’reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150sċieldtruma‘company of soldiers, phalanx’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scheltroun
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022sheltron

Earliest quotation: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds: “As the group tops a crest, there is a…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- ‘to cut’

half, skill, skull, shield, shell, shale, shilling, schilling, shoal, halter, halve, hapa, schelling, shelve, 13 more

Today it means

noun A compact body of troops forming a battle array or phalanx, especially such a body of Scottish troops armed with pikes during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- / sheltron

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