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Why is a shoe called a shoe?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 9/16/2023

From Middle English shoo, from Old English scōh ("shoe"), from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz ("shoe", literally "covering") (cf. West Frisian skoech, Dutch schoen, GermanSchuh, Swedish sko), from Proto-Indo-European *skeuk-(cf. Tocharian B skāk 'balcony'), from *(s)keu- ("to cover").

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