scoru

Old English

Etymology

From Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ru/

Noun

scoru f

1. notch, mark, tally

Usage notes

The singular forms of this word are unattested; only the nominative/accusative/genitive plural scora is attested.

Descendants

• English: score

References

• Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “score”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 799; reprinted 1994.