scotch · noun, verb1
- Old French · derived fromcoche“notch”
- Latin · derived fromex-
- Middle English · inherited fromscocchen“to cut”
- English todayscotch
From Middle English scocchen (“to cut”), perhaps from Anglo-Norman escocher (“to notch”), from es- (“intensive prefix”) (from Latin ex-) + Old French coche (“notch”). Not related to Scotch.
scotch · noun, verb2
From 3M's Scotch tape; the Australian rhyming slang comes from the rhyme between tape and rape.
Scotch · proper noun, noun, adjective3
- Middle English · inherited from*Scoche
- English todayScotch
From Middle English *Scoche (attested in Scocheman, whence Scotchman), a contraction of Scottisch, whence Scottish. The chess opening is supposedly named after a correspondence game between Edinburgh, Scotland, and London, England. Doublet of Scottish, Scots, and schottische.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishscocchen all →
butterscotch
Latinex- all →
escapestovescarcefrayexpatriatescaffoldscourgeeffulgenceexhumea-exinescabblescarper
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.