Where does “sceaga” come from?

sceaga (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic skagō, from Proto-Germanic skōgaz — forest, wood.

sceaga (Old English): copse, thicket

Definitions

  1. copse, thicket

Ancestry of “sceaga”, step by step

sceaga traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic skagō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicskagō—
2Proto-Germanicskōgazforest, wood

via Proto-Germanic *skōgô

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*skōgôthicket, small wood

Words derived from “sceaga”

Every word from Proto-Germanic skōgaz →