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Score

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means the recorded total of points made in a game or test
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Stage 1 of 2
skor
Old Norse · medieval
"a notch, a tally mark"
a notch or tally mark cut to keep count of something
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Stage 2 of 2
score
English · 1200s
"a recorded total, or a group of twenty"
broadened from a tally notch to a count of twenty, then any recorded total
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