Where does “skate” come from?

skate (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse skata, from Old Norse skade.

skate (Norwegian Bokmål): a skate; a dried tree without branches

Definitions

  1. a skate; a dried tree without branches

Ancestry of “skate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norseskataskate
2Old Norseskade—
Every word from Old Norse skade →Every word from Old Norse skata →