Thread:User talk:CodeCat/skuldiz/reply

I think we have quite a lot of etymologies written kind of like that. But I imagine that most readers will realise that (s)kel- is much more like skul- than like -þiz. Maybe it would be better to explain that it might derive from an Indo-European word, because -þiz remained productive for a long time. The IE word would have been *skéltis (> *skilþiz), genitive *skl̥téys (> *skuldīz). Germanic terms of this sort tend to derive from the oblique stem, so at some stage the nominative was back-formed from the genitive stem.