An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/beschuppen

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
beschuppen
Friedrich Kluge2506202An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — beschuppen1891John Francis Davis

beschuppen, vb., ‘to scale, deceive,’ from LG.; the cognate words of the same group show that pf, not pp, is the strictly HG. form. It seems to belong to the stem of OIc. skopa, ‘to deride’; MidDu. scop, ‘derision.’ To the same stem belongs an OTeut. term for ‘poet,’ AS. scop, OHG. scopf, which, on account of its meaning, is important for the right conception of poetic composition among our ancestors.