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scathel

scathel

English

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Adjective

scathel ‎(comparative more scathel, superlative most scathel)

  1. Harmful; noxious; injurious; mischievous.
    • 1880, Joseph Angus, The handbook of specimens of English literature:
      Many a lad there forth leapt, to lave and to cast / Scopen out the scathel water that fayn scape wolde

Noun

scathel ‎(uncountable)

  1. Hurt; injury.

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Etymology

From Middle English scathel ‎(“harmful”), from Old English *sceaþol, from Proto-Germanic *skaþulaz ‎(“harmful”), equivalent to scathe +‎ -le. Cognate with Old High German scadel ‎(“injurious, harmful”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌸𐌿𐌻𐍃 ‎(skaþuls, “injurious, wicked”).

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