Showing posts with label shoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoo. Show all posts

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Etymological Musings

Do the words 'shoo' and 'shoe' share the same history?

With pets - key phrases like walk, treat, dinner, or bath stand out with meaning amid all of the random human babble with our animals.

Did we go from tossing a shoe at a howling dog (and by shoe I mean a soft, harmless slipper) to holding up a shoe and threatening to throw it, to simply saying the word 'shoo'?

The word origins seem to support my theory -
Shoo is German - Shcu
and
Shoe is also German - Schuh

The real problem with this is, who says "I'm going to throw this shoe if you don't shut up"? Or slings a shoe while simultaneously yelling "Shoe!"

Hm.