scanden

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin scandō (“to scan verse”), from classical Latin scandō (“to surmount”), from Proto-Indo-European *skend-.

Forms without /d/ are presumably from the reinterpretation of -de as the suffix forming the past tense.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

scanden (third-person singular simple present scandeth, present participle scandende, scandynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle scanded)

  1. (rare) To scan verse; to mark verse according to its metrical structure.
Conjugation
Conjugation of scanden (weak in -ed/-de)
infinitive (to) scanden, scande
present tense past tense
1st-person singular scande scanded, scande
2nd-person singular scandest scandedest, scandest
3rd-person singular scandeth scanded, scande
subjunctive singular scande
imperative singular —
plural1 scanden, scande scandeden, scandede, scanden, scande
imperative plural scandeth, scande —
participles scandynge, scandende scanded, scand, yscanded, yscand

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants
  • English: scan
  • Middle Scots: scand
    • Scots: scan (possibly reborrowed from English)
References

Etymology 2

Verb

scanden

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of schonden
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