shoot
/ʃut/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "to shoot a gun"
- "If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way."
- "The man, in a desperate bid for freedom, grabbed his gun and started shooting anyone he could."
- "The hunter shot the deer to harvest its meat."
- "The unfortunate Divisional Director, responsible for the Emperor's safety, shot himself."
- "Shepard: She's surrounded by geth and pointing a gun at us. Shoot her!"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti? Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.? Proto-Germanic *skeutaną Proto-West Germanic *skeutan Old English sċēotan Middle English schoten English shoot Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, thematic present of *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scheten,schoten, scēotan, *skeutan, *skeutaną
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃut/
- British English: /ʃuːt/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
shoots (present, singular)
shooting (participle, present)
shot (past)
shot (participle, past)
shotten (participle, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
shot (first person, past)
shooted (archaic, first person)
shootest (archaic, present)
shot (past, second person)
shooted (archaic, past)