Etymology

shameth

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English shame ← Middle English schame ← Old English sċamu
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  1. Proto-Germanic*skamō
  2. Proto-West Germanic*skamu
  3. Old Englishsċamu
  4. Middle Englishschame
  5. Englishshame
  6. English todayshameth

From shame + -(e)th.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.