English
skelly
Skelly may come from Old Norse *skjelga.
- Old Norsec. 800–1350*skjelgauncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1816skelly
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Old Norsec. 800–1350*skjelgauncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1816skelly
Earliest quotation: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham pseudonym; Walter : “It is he—it is the very man," said Bothwell,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- ‘to bend’
cylinder, colon, chalice, scoliosis, colic, calender, 17 more
Today it means
noun A squint.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Norse *skjelga / skelly