Etymology

reskill

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Today it means: To retrain workers in the skills needed by modern business, especially after redundancy. Full definition →

English skill ← Middle English skill ← Old Norse ski
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  7. Proto-Germanic*skilją
  8. Old Norseski
  9. Middle Englishskill
  10. Englishskill
  11. English todayreskill

From re- + skill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.