The story
- German · derived fromschottische“Scottish”
- English todayschottische
From German schottische (“Scottish”), as in der schottische Tanz (“the Scottish dance”). First attested in 1849. Doublet of Scottish, Scotch, and Scots. The Oxford English Dictionary comments that the “quasi-French pronunciation […] has no justification”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.