-
English there were
three words that
could mean darkness: heolstor, genip, and
sceadu.
Heolstor also
meant "hiding-place" and
became holster.
Genip meant "mist"...
- Sca(n)dinavia and Skáney, may be
related to
Gothic skadus, Old
English sceadu, Old
Saxon scado, and Old High
German scato (meaning 'shadow') - compare...
-
Cyninges fyll. /
gebiden hæbbe /
Geseah ic ƿeruda God / þȳstro hæfdon / Ƿealdendes hrǣƿ, /
sceadu forðēode, / Ƿēop eal gesceaft, / Crīst ƿæs on rōde....
-
possibly a
variant of shade. The word
shade comes from the Old
English word
sceadu,
which means "shade, shadow, darkness". The term's P.Gmc. cognate, skadwo...
- ond in þeostrum hēr, sǣton sinneahtes;
synnum bifealdne deorc dēaþes
sceadu drēogan sceoldan. Nū wē
hyhtfulle hǣlo gelyfað þurh þæt word godes...
-
Black Scar. The
party has to
bring Sceadu's Cloak and the Helm of
Justice back.
Having allied with Tarjan,
Sceadu will not
willingly give away the items...
-
except they keep the w
before inflectional endings.
These nouns include sċeadu ("shadow/shade"), sinu ("sinew"), mǣd ("meadow"), and lǣs ("pasture"). Adjectives...
- (cf.
German jung) *sċolde > sċeolde "should" (cf.
German sollte) *sċadu >
sċeadu "shadow" (cf.
Dutch schaduw) Most likely, the
second process was simply...
- and verb: Germanic,
Latin shadow, shade, and shed, all from Old
English sceadu "shadow, shade" stand, stay, state, status, and static: native,
Middle French...
- (widow) and
yallae (yellow) from borgian, folgian, mearh, maedwe, pyle,
sċeadu, swelgan/swealwe,
widwe and ġeolo.
Similarly with
Norse windae (window)...
