Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. · To cut anything in this fashion. · To remove hair from one's face by this means. · To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”). Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven, Low German schaven, German schaben, Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava, Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban), all roughly “to scrape, chafe, shave, plane, remove the outer lay of”.
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- Inherited-form mentionshavenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċafanang · to shave, scrape, shred, polish
- Inherited-form mention*skabangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skabanągem-pro · to scrape
- Derivation mention*skabʰ-ine-pro · to cut, split, form, carve
- Cognate mentionskavefy
- Cognate mentionschavennl
- Cognate mentionschavennds
- Cognate mentionschabende
- Cognate mentionskaveda
- Cognate mentionskavann
- Cognate mentionskavasv
- Cognate mentionskafais
- Cognate mention𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽got
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