Quote Originally Posted by Woodsman View Post
Being part Swedish I was always interested in the Scandanavian origins for kilt. But I suspect it was more rooted in a woman's skirt than in a gentleman's kilt. A blue and yellow Swedish tartan would be nice.
Well, judging from the OED's entries the noun seems to have come from the verb mentioned in the original post. I suspect that "kilt" the noun always referrred to a male, Scottish garment in English since the earliest written attestation refers to a male garment. The verb its derived from could be used with male clothing, as seen in the quotation, but I suspect it could also be used to describe female clothing as well.

As for a Swedish tartan, I believe there is one. I thought about getting it myself.

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Did you all know that skirt and shirt come from the same root? Skirt was inherited from Old English. Shirt comes from Old Norse and as I said, was from the same root as "skirt". However in Swedish even today "ski" will make a "shi" sound, so in Old Norse "skirt" became pronounced "shirt" and the English borrowed a word into the language which it already had and they gave it a slightly different meaning.