eskis

Cornish

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped-skuH-t-, from *ped- (“foot”) + *(s)kewH- (“to cover”); the former component is cognate with English foot, and the latter with Ancient Greek σκῦτος (skûtos, “skin, hide”).[1] Direct cognate with Welsh esgid (“shoe”).

Noun

eskis m (plural eskisyow or 'skijyow)

  1. shoe

References
  1. George Sherman Lane (1931) “Words for Clothing in the Principal Indo-European Languages”, in Language‎, volume 7, number 3, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 35 of 3‒44
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