scanden

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Late Latin scandō (to scan verse), from classical Latin scandō (to surmount), from Proto-Indo-European *skend-.

Forms without /d/ are presumably from the reinterpretation of -de as the suffix forming the past tense.

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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scanden (third-person singular simple present scandeth, present participle scandende, scandynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle scanded)

  1. (rare) To scan verse; to mark verse according to its metrical structure.
Conjugation
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Descendants
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  • English: scan
  • Middle Scots: scand
    • Scots: scan (possibly reborrowed from English)
References
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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scanden

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schonden