Etymograph

English

shot

Shot comes from Old English sceot, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *skutą.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skutą1reconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150sceot1
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1819shot1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English shot
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham pseudonym; Walter , Third Series. […]: “Tell me true, are you not glad to be…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skutąWiktionary, English shotreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150sceotWiktionary, English shot
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1819shotWiktionary, English shot. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham pseudonym; Walter , Third Series. […]: “Tell me true, are you not glad to be…”

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *skutą

Another origin of shot

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skutąreconstructed
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150sċeot
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schot
  4. Englishtodayshot

Today it means

adj Tired, weary.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “shot”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skutą / shot

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