adv.
'with injury'
(Modern English )Formed on scaþe (n.) + suffix; cp. skatheles (adj.).
PGmc Ancestor
*skaþōn
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
skaði ‘harm, damage’
(ONP skaði (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
sceaða (n.) ‘injurious person’ (and rarely ‘injury’)
Phonological and morphological markers
absence of palatalization of */sk/
Summary category
A1*
Attested exclusively from ME alliterative poetry: mid 14c William of Palerne in SWM dial and WA. See also scaþe (n.).
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 642