Etymology

sheller

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Today it means: One who, or that which, shells. Full definition →

English shell ← Middle English schelle ← Old English sċiell
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*skol-yeh₂
  3. Proto-Germanic*skaljō
  4. Proto-West Germanic*skallju
  5. Old Englishsċiell
  6. Middle Englishschelle
  7. Englishshell
  8. English todaysheller

From shell + -er.

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