Words that come from Proto-Germanic “skaþô”

133 words across 33 languages descend from Proto-Germanic skaþô — including scathing, scathingly, schadenfreude, scathe, skedaddle, skaith, scath, scathful.

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English (19)

Dutch (15)

Norwegian Bokmål (13)

German (12)

Swedish (8)

Norwegian Nynorsk (8)

Middle English (6)

Low German (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old English (4)

Czech (3)

Icelandic (3)

Danish (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Old High German (2)

Old Swedish (2)

Polish (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Afrikaans (2)

Old Norse (2)

Proto-Germanic (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Middle High German (2)

Slovak (1)

Faroese (1)

Old Danish (1)

Yiddish (1)

Japanese (1)

Alemannic German (1)

Scots (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Portuguese (1)