The story
- Old Norse · derived fromskjúta“to shoot, dart, move quickly”
- English todayskit
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.