scatheful
English
adj
Definitions
- Causing harm or mischief; injurious; destructive.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *scatheful inherited from Old English sceaþful (hurtful) suffix from English scathe.
Origin
English
scathe
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ill-scathe English
- scathand English
- scathe English
- scathefire English
- scathefulness English
- scathel English
- scatheless English
- scathely English
- scathy English
- sceaþful Old English
- *scatheful Middle English
- scathe Middle English