Morpheme
Score
Type
free base
Denotation
tally, notch, incision, tear, rift, twenty
Etymology
Middle English score, skore, schore; Old English scoru; Old Norse skor
Evidence
fourscore, outscore, overscore, scorable, score, scorecard, scored, scoreless, scores, scoring, threescore, underscore, unscored
Notes
“twenty” notion developed from historical use of one tally mark for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate
