Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Mean; wretched.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. · Loose ground.
Inherited from Middle English scalle, assumed to stem from Old Norse skalli (“bald heard, skull”), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish kallo (“skull”). However, the later form scald, coincides with Old Norse *skolð, Old Swedish skoldh, skold, skol, Swedish skål, skoll, skolla, Danish skold, skolde, Norwegian skåld (“scurf, rash”).
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