Shatter
Middle English (in the sense ‘scatter, disperse’): perhaps imitative; compare with scatter.
wiktionary
From Middle English schateren(“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat-(“to smash, scatter”). Cognate with Dutch schateren(“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj(“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.
etymonline
shatter (v.)
early 14c., transitive, probably a variant of Middle English scateren (see scatter (v.)). Compare Old Dutch schetteren Low German schateren. Formations such as scatter-brained had parallel forms in shatter-brained, etc. Intransitive sense from 1560s. Related: Shattered; shattering. Carlyle (1841) used shatterment. Shatters "fragments" is from 1630s.
