The story
- Old French · derived fromrescoure
- Middle English · inherited fromrescouen
- English todayrescue
From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.