Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The top of the head; the skull. · The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from. · A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory. · The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).
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