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SkateEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Blend of Sawyer + Kate.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗skateEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Back-formation from Dutch schaats, from Middle Dutch schāetse, from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”) (compare French échasse and English scatch), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), related to *skakan (“to shake, swing”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗skateEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English skat, scate (also schat), from Old Norse skata (“skate”). Cognate with Icelandic skata (“skate, ray”), Norwegian skate (“skate”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗skateEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Origin uncertain, but probably related to skite.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- SkateEnglish · e-38700-1941
Skate, skāt, n. a kind of sandal or frame of wood on a steel blade for moving on ice.—v.i. to slide on, skates.—ns. Skā′ter; Skā′ting; Skā′ting-rink. [Dut. schaats; cf. also Dan. sköite.]
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Skate, skāt, n. the popular name of several species of Ray, esp. those of the family Raiidæ and genus Raia, with greatly extended pectoral fins. [Ice. skata—Low L. squatus—L. squatina; cf. Shad.]
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