The word "shootest" is an archaic form of the present tense verb "shoot" conjugated for the second person singular pronoun "thou" in Early Modern English. It is spelled using the Middle English spelling convention, with "-est" as the suffix denoting second person singular. In IPA phonetic transcription, "shootest" is pronounced /ˈʃuːtɪst/, with stress on the first syllable and the vowels /uː/ and /ɪ/ representing the long sound of "oo" and the short sound of "i", respectively.
The word "shootest" is the second-person singular form of the verb "shoot" in the present tense. Its etymology can be traced back to the Old English word "sceotan", which means "to shoot, to discharge a projectile". This Old English term is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "skeutaną", which has the same meaning. The word "shoot" has remained relatively unchanged in its basic form throughout the development of the English language.