Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Shallow.
noun
A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. · A shallow in a body of water.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. · To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. · To become shallow.
From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
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- Root classification mention*(s)kelh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionscholdenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċealdang · shallow
- Inherited-form mention*skalidazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)kelh₁-ine-pro · to dry out
- Cognate mentionSchollnds · shallow water
- Cognate mentionschalde · stale, flat, vapid
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