Etymology

Scaife

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse skeifr
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromskeifr“awry, difficult”
  2. English todayScaife

From Old Norse skeifr (“awry, difficult”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.