sceadd

Old English

Etymology

When comparing Old Norse skaddr and dialectal Norwegian skadd (“a small whitefish”), unless the languages all borrowed from each other, the [d] that occurs in all three is best explained as a borrowing from some European substrate language.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæ͜ɑdd/, [ʃæ͜ɑd]

Noun

sċeadd m

1. shad (kind of fish)

Descendants

• English: shad

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sceadd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1. The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. (2023). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.