Etymology

Cp. OIcel skúta ‘jut out’, formed on PGmc *skeutan- ‘shoot’, cp. OIcel skjóta, OE scēotan ‘to shoot’, OFris skiata, OS skiotan, OHG skiozan. The absence of initial palatalization of /sk/ is a secure test of loan, and the sense of the word in WA, describing rocks, accords better with the OIcel. See also scowtes (n.).

PGmc Ancestor

*skeutan-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

skúta ‘jut out’
(ONP skúta (3)(vb.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Icel skúta, Norw skuta 

OE Cognate

Phonological and morphological markers

absence of palatalization of */sk/

Summary category

A1c

Attestation

hapax legomenon 

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 4865

Bibliography