shalk

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A servant. obsolete
  2. A man; fellow. UK,dialectal

词形变化

shalks plural schalk alternative schak alternative schaik alternative shack alternative

词源

From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”).
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