Where does “shuttle” come from?

Shuttle comes from Middle English shutel, from Old English scutel, from Latin scutella, from Latin scutra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European skey- and sek-, meaning to cut or separate.

shuttle (English): A tool used to carry the woof back and forth...

Definitions

  1. A tool used to carry the woof back and forth...

Ancestry of “shuttle”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishshutel
2Old Englishsċyteldart, arrow; a dart, bolt
3Proto-Germanicskutilaz

Words derived from “shuttle

Every word from Proto-Germanic skutilaz