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Where does “scarse” come from?

scarse (Middle English) comes from Old Northern French scars.

Ancestry of “scarse”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Northern Frenchscars—

Words derived from “scarse”

  • scarce
  • scarceness
  • scarcement
  • nonscarce
  • scarcen
Every word from Old Northern French scars →