From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα ("scab left from a burn"), and thus a eschar) and Middle English skar (from Old Norse skarð ("notch, chink, gap"), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz ("gap, cut, fragment")). Akin to Old Norse skor ("notch, score"), Old English sċeard ("gap, cut, notch"). More at shard.
Displaced native .
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker. Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. skerry.
From Latin scarus ("a kind of fish"), from Ancient Greek σκάρος ("{{vern"), Sparisoma cretense (species), syn. Scarus cretensis (species)}}.
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