English
sketch
Sketch may come from Dutch schets.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentschetsuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1879sketch
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentschetsuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1879sketch
Earliest quotation: 1879, Richard Jefferies, London: Smith: “Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- ‘to overpower’
school, severe, scholar, severity, hector, perseverance, scholastic, schema, shul, 23 more
through Ancient Greek ἔχω ‘to hold’
Today it means
verb To make a brief, basic drawing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch schets / sketch