shoot

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To fire a gun or other weapon, or to hit someone or something with a bullet.

   The hunter raised his rifle and shot at the deer.

2. 2
   verb

   To move or do something very quickly and suddenly.

   The car shot past us at high speed.

3. 3
   verb

   To kick, throw, or hit a ball toward the goal in order to score.

   He shot the ball straight into the top corner of the net.

4. 4
   noun

   An organized event of shooting at targets or animals.

   They hold a shoot every weekend during the summer.

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Simplified etymology

Shoot is recorded from Old English. Sheet shares an ancient root with it, and one sense of shoot was “to project.” Shoot is also related to Old English scyttan “put a bolt in position to hold fast,” the source of shut.

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, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognates 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.

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