Re: R: Re: RV: Old English

Mangiat wrote:

> What about skate, skein, sketch, skewer, skill, skimp, skin...?
Old Norse, French, Dutch (of Italian origin: "schizzo"), unknown,
Old Norse, unknown, and Old Norse respectively.

"Skimp" is interesting.  It is first recorded in Middle English,
and is perhaps a variant of "scrimp", whose etymology is also
uncertain, though there are Swedish and German possible cognates.
The probable OE cognate surfaces as "shrimp", though not actually
recorded in OE.

See http://www.m-w.com .

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