The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*skewdʰ-“to cover, surround, enwrap”
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*skaudō“sheath, husk”
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*skaudā
- Old Saxon · derived from*skōda
- Middle Low German · borrowed fromschôde
- English todayshood
From Middle Low German schôde, from Old Saxon *skōda, from Proto-West Germanic *skaudā, from Proto-Germanic *skaudō (“sheath, husk”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ- (“to cover, surround, enwrap”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schode (“pod, shell, husk”), German Schote (“pod, hull”), Icelandic skauð (“a horse's sheath”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*skewdʰ- all →
shudder
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.