late 14c., from scant + -ly (2). OED reports it "exceedingly common from the 15th to the middle of the 17th c.; in the 18th c. it had app. become obsolere; revived in literary use by Scott."
scanner
scansion
scant
scantily
scantling
scantly
scantness
scanty
scape
scapegoat
scapegrace