English
shool
Shool comes from Middle English schovele ‘a shovel or spade’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *skuflō.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skuflō‘shovel’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sċofl‘shovel’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schovele‘a shovel or spade’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611shool
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skuflō‘shovel’reconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sċofl‘shovel’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schovele‘a shovel or spade’
- Englishearliest quotation 1611shool
Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers,…”
Formed from shove + -el
Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-
Proto-Germanic *skeubaną ‘to push, drive’
Proto-West Germanic *skeuban ‘to push, to drive’
Old English sċūfan ‘to push, shove’
Middle English schouven ‘to shove’
English shove
Linked words
through Middle English schovele ‘a shovel or spade’
Today it means
noun A shovel.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skuflō / shool