scoop

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*(s)kep-“to cut, to scrape, to hack”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skuppǭ
3. Middle Dutch · derived fromschoppe
4. Middle Dutch · derived fromscoep
5. Middle English · inherited fromscope
6. English todayscoop

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, French écope, Japanese スコップ.

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