Etymology

shieling

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Today it means: An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc. Full definition →

Scots shiel ← Old Norse skjól
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromskjól“shelter, cover”
  2. Scots · borrowed fromshiel“hut”
  3. English todayshieling

From Scots shiel (“hut”) (from Old Norse skjól (“shelter, cover”)) + -ing. Akin to Danish skjul (“cover”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.