Etymology

shilling

shil·ling
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Today it means: A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling. Full definition →

Middle English schilling ← Old English sċilling ← Proto-Germanic *skillingaz
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shilling · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skiljaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*skillingaz
  4. Old Englishsċilling
  5. Middle Englishschilling
  6. English todayshilling

From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-West Germanic *skilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling. Compare typologically Russian рубль (rublʹ) (akin to руби́ть (rubítʹ)), полти́на (poltína), полти́нник (poltínnik) (akin to Proto-Slavic *tęti).

shilling · verb2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skillingaz all →

schilling

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