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shalk.

A servant.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ʃɔːk/
  1. A servant.

    obsolete
  2. A man; fellow.

    UK · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”).

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