skeet
UK[skiːt]US[skiːt]
n
a shooting sport where participants use shotguns to break clay targets launched from two fixed stations at high speed and varying angles.
Etymology
the word 'skeet' is a 20th-century invention, not derived from classical roots. it was chosen as the name for this shooting sport in 1926, following a public contest to find a new term. the name is an anglicization of the scandinavian word 'skyte', meaning 'to shoot'. this modern creation bypasses the typical greco-latin morphological path, instead directly borrowing and modifying a term from a germanic language to descriptively label the activity.
Analysis
this is a simplex word. it is a loanword where the spelling was adapted from the source.
Examples
he practices skeet shooting every weekend to improve his accuracy.
she won a gold medal in the olympic skeet event.
the club has excellent facilities for both trap and skeet.