The story
- Old Norse · derived fromskriða“landslide, scree”
- English todayscriddan
A relation to Old Norse skriða (“landslide, scree”) or an unattested Old English cognate thereof, *scridan (plural of *scride), has been suggested, as has derivation from a Gaelic word sgriodan, itself perhaps from Norse. Compare scree.
Words from the same roots
Old Norseskriða all →
scree
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.