shilling n.

English monetary unit, Middle English shilling, from Old English scilling, scylling, a coin of account consisting of a varying number of pence (on the continent and in England after the Conquest, commonly 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound), from Proto-Germanic *skillingoz- (source also of Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Old Frisian, Old High German skilling, Old Norse skillingr, Dutch schelling, German Schilling, Gothic skilliggs).

Some etymologists trace this to the root *skell- "to resound, to ring," and others to the root *(s)kel- (1) "to cut" (perhaps via sense of "shield" from resemblance to one or as a device on coins (see shield (n.)) or from the cut or clipped segments of precious metal used as money).

The ending may represent the diminutive suffix -ling, or Germanic -ing "fractional part" (compare farthing). Old Church Slavonic skulezi, Polish szeląg, Spanish escalin, French schelling, Italian scellino are loan-words from Germanic. The modern English silver shilling dates to Henry VII.

Reckoning by the shilling is still not uncommon in some parts of the United States, especially in rural New England. [Century Dictionary, 1891]

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词源	shilling n. English monetary unit, Middle English shilling, from Old English scilling, scylling, a coin of account consisting of a varying number of pence (on the continent and in England after the Conquest, commonly 12 pennies to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound), from Proto-Germanic skillingoz- (source also of Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Old Frisian, Old High German skilling, Old Norse skillingr, Dutch schelling, German Schilling, Gothic skilliggs). Some etymologists trace this to the root skell- "to resound, to ring," and others to the root (s)kel- (1) "to cut" (perhaps via sense of "shield" from resemblance to one or as a device on coins (see shield (n.)) or from the cut or clipped segments of precious metal used as money). The ending may represent the diminutive suffix -ling, or Germanic -ing "fractional part" (compare farthing). Old Church Slavonic skulezi, Polish szeląg, Spanish escalin, French schelling, Italian scellino are loan-words from Germanic. The modern English silver shilling dates to Henry VII. Reckoning by the shilling is still not uncommon in some parts of the United States, especially in rural New England. [Century Dictionary, 1891] Entries linking to shilling* shield n. Middle English sheld, "frame or rounded plate of wood, metal, etc., carried by an warrior on the arm or in the hand as defense," from Old English scield, scild "shield; protector, defender," originally "board," from Proto-Germanic skelduz (source also of Old Norse skjöldr, Old Saxon skild, Middle Dutch scilt, Dutch schild, German Schild, Gothic skildus), from skel- "divide, split, separate," from PIE root skel- (1) "to cut." The IE sense evolution of that proposal is uncertain; the ancient notion is perhaps a flat piece of wood made by splitting a log, but Boutkan writes, "it seems more probable to me that the word designated a means of protection, i.e. a separation between the fighter and the enemy." Shield usually meant a larger defensive device, covering much of the body, as opposed to a buckler. Shield volcano* (1911) translates German Schildvulkan (1910). The plate tectonics sense of shield as "large, stable mass of Achaean rock forming a continental nucleus" is by 1906, translating Suess (1888). farthing n. Old English feorðing (Old Northumbrian feorðung) "quarter of a penny; a fourth part," a diminutive derivative of feorða "fourth" (from feower "four;" from PIE root *kwetwer- "four") + -ing "fractional part." Cognate with Old Frisian fiardeng, Middle Low German verdink, Old Norse fjorðungr, Old Danish fjerdung "a fourth part of anything." In late Old English also a division of land, probably originally a quarter of a hide. The modern English coin first was minted under Edward I and abolished 1961. The word was used in biblical translations for Latin quadrans "quarter of a denarius." I shall geat a fart of a dead man as soone As a farthyng of him. [Heywood, "Proverbs," 1562] updated on September 07, 2022
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