- skot-
- skot-English meaning: shadow, darknessDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘schatten, Dunkel”Material: Gk. σκότος “darkness” (m., later n.); O.Ir. (lengthened grade) scüth n. ‘shadow, protection, mirror”; M.Welsh isgaud, cy-sgawd, Welsh cy-sgod, O.Corn. scod, neuCorn. skēz, Bret. skeud ‘shadow”; Goth. skadus m., O.E. sceadu f., scead n., O.H.G. scato, -awes ‘shadow”, Nor. skodda, skadda “fog”. maybe Alb. skaj “edge, remote border, end” related to eng. sky ME. [ON skū cloud, rel. to OE sceo, OS scio and (more remotely) OE scuwa, OHG scuwo, ON skuggi shade, shadow, Goth. skuggwa mirror.] maybe Alb. hie ‘shadow”, hi “ash, gray” [common Alb. sk- > h- shift].References: WP. II 600.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.