Etymology

cp. OIcel skúti ‘cave formed by jutting rocks’ < PGmc *skūtōn; related to skúta ‘to jut out’, i.e. a formation on the root of PGmc *skeutan- ‘to shoot’ (see also skete).

PGmc Ancestor

*skūtōn 

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

skúti ‘cave formed by jutting rocks’ 
(ONP skúti (1) (n.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far skúti, Icel skúti, Norw skût

OE Cognate

Phonological and morphological markers

absence of palatalization of */sk/

Summary category

A1bc

Attestation

Only Gaw 2167 in ME. N/EM only in place-name evidence (see EPNE, EDD, and Elliott 1984: 81, 99-100 and 1989: 7).

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 2167

On the sense of Gaw 2167, see Wright 1906: 219.

Bibliography

MED scoute (n.2) , OED scout (n.1) , HTOED , EDD s.v. scout (sb.1), Dance scowtes, Bj. 134, de Vries skúti (1), Mag. skúti (1), EPNE skúti