The story
- Latin · derived fromex-
- Old French · derived fromescapler“to dress timber”
- Middle English · inherited fromscaplen
- English todayscabble
From Middle English scaplen, from Old French escapler (“to dress timber”), from es- (“off”) (from Latin ex-) + capler (“to cut”) (from Vulgar Latin *capulre, *cappulre).
Words from the same roots
Latinex- all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.