Where does “shade” come from?

Shade comes from Middle English schade, Old English sċeadu, and Proto-Germanic skadwaz, which originally meant shadow or darkness cast by an object blocking light.

shade (English): Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is...

Definitions

  1. Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is...

Ancestry of “shade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishschadeA shadow or a similar effect; A shade or...
2Old Englishsċeadushadow, shade; darkness; protection
3Proto-West Germanicskadushadow
4Proto-Germanicskaduza shadow
5Proto-Indo-European(s)ḱeh₃-darkness, shadow

Words derived from “shade”

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