score

Mane (Îngilîzî)

Têgeh

Pircarînî

B1
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/skɔː/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

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