scir
Old English
noun
Definitions
- office (status of an official)
- district (under an official or governor)
- administrative region, shire (consisting of a number of hundreds or wapentakes, ruled jointly by an alderman and a sheriff)
Etymology
Inherited from *skīru inherited from Proto-Germanic *skīrō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skīrō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Lancashire English
- shire English
- *skīrō Proto-Germanic
- sċīr Old English
- Everwich schire Middle English
- Lancastreshire Middle English
- Yorkshire Middle English
- shire Middle English
- shirreve Middle English
- *skīru gmw-pro