scavage

scavage · noun¹

1. Old English · derived fromsċēawung“a looking at, seeing, contemplation, consideration, respect, regard, reconnoitering, surveying, inspection, examination, scrutiny, a spectacle, show, appearance, pretence, a showing, exhibiting, manifestation, toll on exposure of goods”
2. Middle English · derived fromshewing
3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromescavage
4. Middle English · inherited fromscavage
5. English todayscavage

From Middle English scavage, schevage, schewage, from Anglo-Norman escavage, escauwage, alteration of earlier escauvinghe (“scavage”), from Middle English shewing, schewing (“inspection, examination, show”), from Old English sċēawung (“a looking at, seeing, contemplation, consideration, respect, regard, reconnoitering, surveying, inspection, examination, scrutiny, a spectacle, show, appearance, pretence, a showing, exhibiting, manifestation, toll on exposure of goods”), equivalent to show + -ing. Doublet of shewage.

scavage · verb²

Back-formation from scavager.

Words from the same roots