scathe – English noun declension

English noun forms of scathe

Noun: scathe
Singularscathe
Pluralscathes

Sample Sentences

  • Therefore great Lords bee as your titles vvitnes, / Imperious, and impatient of your vvrongs, / And vvherein Rome hath done you any ſkath, / Let him make treable ſatisfaction. [c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], signature [H4], recto:]
  • [S]trong ale and noble cheere / t'aſſwage breeme winters ſcathes. [1606?, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “Ode 7”, in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall. […], London: […] R. B[radock] for N[icholas] L[ing] and I[ohn] Flasket, →OCLC; republished in Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 4), [Manchester: […] Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1891, →OCLC, page 22:]
  • I red ye weel, tak care o' ſkaith, / See there's a gully! [[1787, Robert Burns, “Death and Doctor Hornbook, a True Story”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, page 56:]
  • Let us take the scathe and the scorn candidly home to us;—and try to prepare for doing better. [1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Friedrich Reduced to Straits; Cannot Maintain His Moldau Conquests against Prince Karl”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page 60:]
  • Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so. [1870, “The Latter End of All the Kin of the Giukings”, in Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, transl., Völsunga Saga. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs: With Certain Songs from the Elder Edda. […], London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 161:]
  • 'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, / A dead disbowelled mystery; / The mummy of a buried faith / Stark from the charnel without scathe, / Its wings stood for the light to bathe,— […] [1870 April 26, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “[Poems.] The Burden of Nineveh.”, in Poems, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, stanza 2, pages 21–22:]
  • The pride I trampled is now my scathe, / For it tramples me again. [1888, William Ernest Henley, “Life and Death (Echoes)”, in A Book of Verses, London: David Nutt […], →OCLC, canto XXXV, page 102:]
  • They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him. [1870, William Morris, “December: The Fostering of Aslaug”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 57:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English scath, scathe [and other forms], from Old Norse skaði (“damage, harm; loss; death; murder”), from Proto-Germanic *skaþô (“damage, scathe; one who causes damage, injurer”, noun) (whence Old English sċeaþa, sċeaþu (“scathe, harm, injury”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keh₁t- (“damage, harm”). Cognate with German Schaden (“damage, harm”).
2. cognates
3. * Scots skaith
4. * Dutch schade
5. * German schaden
6. * Norwegian skade
7. * Swedish skada
8. * Icelandic skaði
9. * Polish szkoda
10. * Russian шко́да (škóda)
11. * Belarusian шко́дa (škóda)
12. * Ukrainian шко́да (škóda) See: Old Norse Nouns 'skaði', Old English Nouns 'sċeaþa', German Nouns 'Schaden', Dutch Nouns 'schade', German Nouns 'schaden', Swedish Nouns 'skada', Icelandic Nouns 'skaði', Polish Nouns 'szkoda'.

Verbs referencing "scathe"

German Nouns Schaden, Danish Nouns skade, Swedish Nouns skada.