Английский Этимологический словарь - skate (2)

- "ice skate or roller skate," 1662, skeates "ice skates" (the custom brought to England after the Restoration by exiled followers of Charles II who took refuge in Holland), from Du. schaats (singular, mistaken in Eng. as plural), from M.Du. schaetse, from O.N.Fr. escache "a stilt, trestle," from O.Fr. eschace "stilt," from Frank. *skakkja "thing that shakes or moves fast," perhaps related to root of O.E. sceacan "to vibrate" (see shake). The verb is from 1696.