Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To travel on foot. · To stab, especially with an improvised blade. · To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants. · To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle. · Meat from that part of an animal. · A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs. · A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
Bad.
Inherited from Middle English sceonke, schank, schanke, shanke, schonke, sconke, sschanke, from Old English sċanca, sċeanca, sċeonca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (“shank; thigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to hobble, limp; to tilt”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian skonk (“leg”), Dutch schenkel (“shank”), German and Luxembourgish Schenkel (“thigh”), Danish skank (“shank; leg”), Norwegian Nynorsk skank, skonk (“thigh; foot”), Swedish skank, skånk (“leg”); also Cornish kamm (“pace, step”), Irish céim (“pace, step”), Manx keim (“degree, pace, stage, step”), Scottish Gaelic ceum (“pace, step”), Welsh cam (“pace, step”), Greek σκάω (skáo), σκάζω (skázo, “to burst, explode”), Bulgarian and Macedonian шега́ (šegá, “jest, joke; prank”).
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- Root classification mention*(s)keng-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsceonkeenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċancaang
- Inherited-form mention*skankōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skankôgem-pro · shank; thigh
- Derivation mention*(s)keng-ine-pro · to hobble, limp; to tilt
- Cognate mentionskonkfy · leg
- Cognate mentionschenkelnl · shank
- Cognate mentionskankda · shank; leg
- Cognate mentionskanknn
- Cognate mentionskanksv
- Cognate mentionkammkw · pace, step
- Cognate mentioncéimga · pace, step
- Cognate mentionkeimgv · degree, pace, stage, step
- Cognate mentionceumgd · pace, step
- Cognate mentioncamcy · pace, step
- Cognate mentionσκάωel
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