shy
English
/ʃaɪ/
adj
Definitions
- Easily frightened; timid.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
- Embarrassed.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English shy (shy) inherited from Old English sċēoh (shy) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (shy, frightened, reserved, afraid, odious, fearful).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skeuhaz
Gloss
shy, frightened, reserved, afraid, odious, fearful
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cock English
- cockshy English
- gun English
- gun-shy English
- gunshy English
- love English
- love-shy English
- love-shyness English
- nonshy English
- shieth English
- shily English
- shiness English
- shybie English
- shyful English
- shying English
- shyish English
- shyly English
- shyness English
- skive English
- skiver English
- unshy English
- unshyly English
- work English
- workshy English
- workshyness English
- kamerascheu German
- kontaktscheu German
- kopfscheu German
- medienscheu German
- risikoscheu German
- scheu German
- schüchter German
- kopschuw Dutch, Flemish
- schuchter Dutch, Flemish
- schuw Dutch, Flemish
- esquiver French
- *skeuhaz Proto-Germanic
- シャイ Japanese
- sċēoh Old English
- shy Middle English
- afsky Danish
- sky Danish
- schu Middle Dutch
- *skiuh Old High German
- sku Afrikaans
- schiech Middle High German
- schiehe Middle High German
- schiuch Middle High German
- schiuch, schie, schiuhe, schiehe, schiech, schūche Middle High German
- schei Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 Gothic
- *keühä Proto-Finnic
- schūwe Middle Low German
- schüüch Alemannic German
- schüüche Alemannic German
- *sciuh Frankish
- *skiā Old Frisian
- skjou Saterland Frisian