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|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">prepared skin, leather, leather thong</b> (ξ 34).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">σκυτο-τόμος</b> m. <b class="b2">leather-worker, cobbler</b> (H 221); as 2. member in <b class="b3">δωδεκά-σκυτος</b> [[consisting of twelve leather strips]] (Pl.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Dimin. <b class="b3">σκυτ-άριον</b> n., <b class="b3">-ίς</b> f. (hell. a. late). 2. adj. <b class="b3">-ινος</b> [[leathern]] (IA.), <b class="b3">-ικός</b> <b class="b2">belonging to leather(-work)</b>, <b class="b3">ἡ -ικη τέχνη</b> [[cobblers job]] (Pl., Arist. a. o.), <b class="b3">-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">leather-like</b> (Arist.). 3. subst. <b class="b3">-εύς</b> m. [[cobbler]] (Att.) with <b class="b3">-εῖον</b>, <b class="b3">-εύω</b>, <b class="b3">-εία</b>, <b class="b3">-ευσις</b> (Hp., Att. etc.; Bosshardt 50). 4. verb <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> in <b class="b3">ἐσκυτωμένος</b> <b class="b2">coated with leather</b> (Att. inscr., Plb. a. o.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: No immediate non-Greek agreement. The other languages have several comparable words for <b class="b2">skin v. t.</b>, but all without initial <b class="b2">s-</b>: with long vowel as in <b class="b3">σκῦτος</b> the Germ. word for [[skin]], e.g. OHG [[hūt]], PGm <b class="b2">*hūði-</b>, IE <b class="b2">*kūt-i-</b>; with short vowel Lat. [[cutis]] [[skin]], Lith. [[kutỹs]] <b class="b2">pouch around the body, money-bag</b>; with diphthong (full grade) OPr. [[keuto]] [[skin]], IE <b class="b2">*keutā</b>, Lith. [[kiáutas]] [[case]], [[envelop]], [[shell]]; further forms in WP. 2, 549f., Pok. 952, W.-Hofmann s. [[cutis]]. If prop. *'cover', one may consider further connection with <b class="b3">σκῦλα</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπισκύνιον</b>; s. vv. All kinds of combinations in Specht Ursprung 208, 226 a. 237. Cf. also [[κεύθω]]. -- Lat. [[scūtum]] [[shield]] is ambivalent; s. W.-Hofmann s. v.