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ill-scathe

noun

Etymology

From ill + scathe.

  1. derived from *(s)keh₁t-✻ — “damage, harm”
  2. derived from *skaþô✻ — “damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”
  3. derived from skaði — “damage, harm; loss; death; murder”
  4. inherited from scath
  5. compounded as ill-scathe — “ill + scathe”

Definitions

  1. Harm

    Harm; hurt.

    • Then said Geitir: "I think you have much more excuse for considering this an ill scathe than you had the last time; for the other seemed to me of little moment. [...]"

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ill-scathe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA