The story
- Old English · derived fromsċōna“shoes'”
- Old English · derived fromsċōn“shoes”
- Middle English · inherited fromschon
- English todayshoon
From Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe + -en.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.