- scamol
- m (-es/-as) stool, footstool, bench, table (of money-changers); [the word remains in the form shambles, properly stalls or benches on which butchersexpose meat for sale]
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
scamol
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shambles — [sham′bəlz] n. 〚ME schamel, bench, as for displaying meat for sale < OE scamol, bench or stool, akin to Ger schemel < early WGmc borrowing < L scamellum, dim. < scamnum, bench < IE base * skabh , * skambh , to prop up > Sans skámbhana , a… … Universalium
Shambles — Orig. a footstool; then a table displaying wares for sale, most often meat; later, a street or passage of such tables, a meat market, e.g. the Shambles in York, whence our use of the word to indicate disorder. Shambles was known in 12c Latin as… … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
scamel — see scamol … Old to modern English dictionary
scamul — see scamol … Old to modern English dictionary
scemel — see scamol … Old to modern English dictionary
Schemel — Schemel: Die kleine Bank heißt mhd. schemel, ahd. ‹fuoz̧›scamil, niederl. schemel, ähnl. aengl. scamol. Die westgerm. Wörter sind früh aus spätlat. scamillus, scamellum »Bänkchen« (zu lat. scamnum »Bank«) entlehnt worden. Älteste Bedeutung im Dt … Das Herkunftswörterbuch
shambles — [sham′bəlz] n. [ME schamel, bench, as for displaying meat for sale < OE scamol, bench or stool, akin to Ger schemel < early WGmc borrowing < L scamellum, dim. < scamnum, bench < IE base * skabh , * skambh , to prop up > Sans… … English World dictionary
