schuw
Dutch (Brabantic)
/sxyu̯/
adj
Definitions
- (animals) shy of humans, wild
- (people) shy, unsociable
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch schu.
Origin
Middle Dutch
schu
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cockshy English
- gun-shy English
- gunshy English
- love-shy English
- nonshy English
- shieth English
- shily English
- shiness English
- shy English
- shybie English
- shyful English
- shying English
- shyish English
- shyly English
- shyness English
- skeeve English
- skeeved English
- skeevies English
- skeevy English
- unshy English
- workshy English
- kamerascheu German
- kontaktscheu German
- kopfscheu German
- medienscheu German
- risikoscheu German
- scheu German
- schüchter German
- schifare Italian
- schifezza Italian
- schifiltà Italian
- schifo Italian
- schifoso Italian
- kop Dutch, Flemish
- kopschuw Dutch, Flemish
- schuchter Dutch, Flemish
- シャイ Japanese
- shy Middle English
- eschiu Old French
- schu Middle Dutch
- sku Afrikaans
- schiehe Middle High German
- schiuch Middle High German
- schiuch, schie, schiuhe, schiehe, schiech, schūche Middle High German
- schei Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- schüüch Alemannic German
- schüüche Alemannic German
- *skiā Old Frisian
- skjou Saterland Frisian