Scatter
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Middle English (as a verb): probably a variant of shatter.
wiktionary
From Middle English scateren, skateren, (also schateren, see shatter), from Old English *sceaterian, probably from a dialect of Old Norse. Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *skey-(“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren(“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren(“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι(skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). [1] Doublet of shatter.
etymonline
scatter (v.)
mid-12c. (transitive), possibly a northern English variant of Middle English schateren (see shatter), reflecting Norse influence. Intransitive sense from early 15c. Related: Scattered; scattering. As a noun from 1640s.
