The story
- Old English · learned borrowing fromsċylian
- English todayscyle
Apparently a learned borrowing from Old English sċylian, sċilian (“to separate; part; remove”). Cognate with Icelandic skilja (“to separate; split; divide”). The inherited Middle English forms of these verbs were Middle English schillen and skillen respectively. More at skill.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsċylian all →
sheal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.