shirt – English noun declension

English noun forms of shirt

Noun: shirt
Singularshirt
Pluralshirts

Sample Sentences

  • He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.
  • She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere. [1509, John Fisher, A Mornynge Remembraunce […] :]
  • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts. [1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled. [2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *skertaną
4. Proto-Germanic *skurtaz
5. Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ
6. Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā
7. Old English sċyrte
8. Middle English schirte
9. English shirt
10. From Middle English schirt, schirte, schuirte, schyrtte, seorte, shearte, shert, shirt, sseorte, from Old English sċyrte (“a short garment; skirt; kirtle”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurtijā, from Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ (“a short garment, skirt, apron”), from *skurtaz (“short”), from *skertaną (“to cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off; to divide”). Doublet of skirt.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Yola shoorth, skoorth (“shirt”), North Frisian Sjürt (“shirt”), Saterland Frisian Schoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk skjorte (“shirt”), Faroese skjúrta (“shirt”), Icelandic skyrta (“shirt”), Swedish skjorta (“shirt”), Irish sciorta (“skirt; strip”), Welsh sgert (“skirt”); also Irish curach, currach (“coracle, currach”), Welsh corwg (“coracle”), Latin carō (“flesh; pulp of a fruit; soft part of a precious stone”), Umbrian 𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌖 (karu, “part”), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to shave; to waste; to consume; to cut short”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear; to scratch”), Latvian šķērst (“cut dead animal or human so as to expose internal organs”), Lithuanian sker̃sti (“to slaughter; to massacre; to cut”), Belarusian кара́ (kará, “bark; crust”), Bulgarian, Carpathian Rusyn, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian кора́ (korá, “bark”), Czech kůra (“bark( crust; cortex; rind”), Kashubian kóra (“bark; crust”), Lower Sorbian škóra (“bark; crust”), Polish kora (“bark; crust; cortex”), Serbo-Croatian ко̏ра, kȍra (“bark; crust”), Slovak kôra (“bark; crust”), Upper Sorbian skora (“bark; crust”), Armenian քերել (kʻerel, “to scrape, scrub”), Central Kurdish چەرم (çerm, “skin”), Northern Kurdish çerm (“skin”), Ossetian царм (carm, “skin”), Persian چرم (čarm, “leather”), Hittite 𒅗𒊑𒄑𒍣 (kariezzi, “to cover”), Kamkata-viri čom, čum (“skin; hide”), Sanskrit चर्मन् (carman, “skin; pelt”).
13. Doublet of skirt via Old Norse; further related to short. See: Middle English Nouns 'schirt', Old English Nouns 'sċyrte', Dutch Nouns 'schort', German Nouns 'Schürze', Faroese Nouns 'skjúrta', Icelandic Nouns 'skyrta', Swedish Nouns 'skjorta', Irish Nouns 'sciorta', Irish Nouns 'curach', Latin Nouns 'carō', Czech Nouns 'kůra', Polish Nouns 'kora', Slovak Nouns 'kôra'.

Verbs referencing "shirt"

Dutch Nouns shirt, German Nouns Schürze, Danish Nouns skjorte, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skjorte, Danish Nouns skørt, German Nouns Shirt.