An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/schrötig

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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2530985An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S — schrötigJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

schrötig, in ein verschrötiger Baum, ‘a tree from which four posts can be made,’ early Modern High German only, is probably connected with Old High German viorscôȥȥi, ‘four-cornered’; compare Middle Dutch vierscoot, ‘square-built, thick-set,’ earlier Low German vierschötig, ‘four-cornered’; compare Schoß (3).