schaven
Low German
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to scrape; to scratch; to scour; to chafe
- (intransitive) to scrape
- (reflexive) to scrape oneself; to scrub oneself
- (reflexive) to shave oneself
Etymology
Inherited from Old Saxon skavan inherited from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (scratch, scrape).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skabaną
Gloss
scratch, scrape
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftershave English
- drawshave English
- inshave English
- preshave English
- reshave English
- shave English
- shaveable English
- shavee English
- shavegrass English
- shavehook English
- shaveless English
- shaveling English
- shaver English
- shavest English
- shavetail English
- shaveth English
- spokeshave English
- *skabʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *skabaną Proto-Germanic
- scafan Old English
- sċafan Old English
- shaven Middle English
- skafa Old Norse
- skava Old Norse
- siafio Welsh
- skaban Old High German
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- kaapima Estonian
- *scavan Old Dutch
- *skavan Old Dutch
- *kaapidak Proto-Finnic
- skavan Old Saxon
- *skaban Frankish
- sev Tok Pisin
- afschaven Low German
- shefa Swati
- tjhefa South Ndebele