Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A shovel. · A spade.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo move materials with a shovel. · To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling · To shuffle or shamble. · To go about begging.
From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
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- Inherited-form mentionschoveleenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċoflang
- Inherited-form mention*skuflōgem-pro
- Cognate mentionshufflesco
- Cognate mentionSköifelstq
- Cognate mentionskoffelfy
- Cognate mentionschoffelnl
- Cognate mentionSchüfelnds
- Cognate mentionSchaufelde
- Cognate mentionskovlda
- Cognate mentionskyffelsv
- Cognate mentionskóflais
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