scheef.
crooked, not level or straight
Meaning & usage
crooked, not level or straight
weird, not right
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch scheyff, from Proto-West Germanic *skēf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaib, from Proto-Germanic *skaibaz ‘crooked, askew’, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-. Compare Latin scaevus (“left, clumsy”), Ancient Greek σκαιός (skaiós, “rude; brusque”), Latvian šķìbs (“crooked”). Cognate with German schief, Old English *sc(e)āf (in scāffōt (“splay-footed”)), Swedish skev.
shive, i.e. fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch scēve, from Proto-Germanic *skibō-; cognate with Low German Schääv, German Schäbe, and English shive, all ‘fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp’.
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