Etymology of the English word rascally
the English word
rascallyderived from the English word
rascalderived from the Old French word
rascaillederived from the Old French word
rasquederived from the Vulgar Latin root
*rasicarederived from the Classical Latin word
radere (to scrape; shave; scratch, scrape)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*red-derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*rēd-using the English suffix
-lyUsage
Word found in Modern English