Etymology

shootist

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Today it means: A person who is an expert user of firearms, especially a sharpshooter or a gunslinger in the Old West. Full definition →

English shoot ← Middle English schoten ← Old English sċēotan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kéwdeti?
  3. Proto-Germanic*skuttōnąbf.?
  4. Proto-Germanic*skeutaną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*skeutan
  6. Old Englishsċēotan
  7. Middle Englishschoten
  8. Englishshoot
  9. English todayshootist

From shoot + -ist.

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