Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To become covered by a scab or scabs. · To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. · To remove part of a surface (from). · To act as a strikebreaker.
An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. · The scabies. · The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. · Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus).
From Middle English scabb, scabbe (also as shabbe, schabbe > English shab), from Old English sċeabb and Old Norse skabb, both from Proto-Germanic *skabbaz (“scab, scabies”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, carve, shape”). Doublet of shab. Cognate with German Schabe (“scabies”), Danish skab (“scab, scabies”), Swedish skabb (“scab, scabies”), Latin scabies (“scab, itch, mange”). Related also to Old English scafan (“to scrape, shave”), Latin scabere (“to scratch”), English shabby.
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- Inherited-form mentionscabbenm
- Cognate mentionshaben
- Inherited-form mentionsċeabbang
- Derivation mentionskabbnon
- Inherited-form mention*skabbazgem-pro · scab, scabies
- Derivation mention*skabʰ-ine-pro · to cut, split, carve, shape
- Doublet mentionshaben
- Cognate mentionSchabede · scabies
- Cognate mentionskabda · scab, scabies
- Cognate mentionskabbsv · scab, scabies
- Cognate mentionscabiesla · scab, itch, mange
- Cognate mentionscafanang · to scrape, shave
- Cognate mentionscaberela · to scratch
- Cognate mentionshabbyen
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