scanden

== 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 ==== scande, scanne ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈskan(d)ən/ ==== Verb ==== scanden (third-person singular simple present scandeth, present participle scandende, scandynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle scanded) (rare) To scan verse; to mark verse according to its metrical structure. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Descendants ===== English: scan Middle Scots: scand Scots: scan (possibly reborrowed from English) ===== References ===== “scannen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== scanden (Early Middle English) alternative form of schonden