Think of the moment water comes out of a kettle. It is not just warm and it is not just very hot: touch it and skin is hurt. That is the exact line this word sits on, the heat that does damage. Everything the word does keeps that line in view - the drink you must wait to drink, the burn it leaves, the words that sting when you read them, the tears that feel like heat on a face.
From the word’s history
The packet traces scald back through Old French to Latin excaldo, built on calidus meaning hot - the picture of washing or drenching in hot water.
資料來源把 scald 追到拉丁文 excaldō，裡面有 calidus（熱的），可以想成「用很燙的水沖」。
Wiktionary etymology_text supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1352440705): etymology tree via Latin ex- + calidus/caldus, Latin excaldo, Old French.
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