shoot – English noun declension

English noun forms of shoot

Noun: shoot
Singularshoot
Pluralshoots

Sample Sentences

  • Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring. [1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:]
  • From the bonfire of last autumn's HS2 decision, there are green shoots pushing through the ashes. [2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Comment: A new, better version of HS2”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 3:]
  • While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist. [2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 50:]
  • The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. [1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:]
  • where to find a shoot of ore opposite one they may have taken away on a parallel lode [1853, Thomas McElrath, William Jewett Tenney, William Phipps Blake, The Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy, Metallurgy:]
  • 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
  • In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...
  • That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company. [1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports, volume 12, page 238:]
  • Once the last line of cable has been retrieved, there is little evidence that a shoot has been conducted. [1980, The Williston Basin, 1980, page 159:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwdeti?
5. Proto-Germanic *skuttōnąbf.?
6. Proto-Germanic *skeutaną
7. Proto-West Germanic *skeutan
8. Old English sċēotan
9. Middle English schoten
10. English shoot
11. Inherited from Middle English scheten, schoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, thematic present of *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
12. Cognates
13. Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs. See: Old English Nouns 'scēotan'.

Verbs referencing "shoot"

German Nouns Schuss, Portuguese Nouns chuto, Romanian Nouns șut.