skava
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- to rub, to scrape
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish skava inherited from Old Norse skafa inherited from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (scratch, scrape) derived from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (scratch, split, cut, carve, hold up, shape, form).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*skabʰ-
Gloss
scratch, split, cut, carve, hold up, shape, form
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
体
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
- scaber Latin
- scabo Latin
- schaben German
- *skabʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *skabaną Proto-Germanic
- *skabbaz Proto-Germanic
- skava Norwegian Nynorsk
- scafan Old English
- sċafan Old English
- shaven Middle English
- skafa Old Norse
- skava Old Norse
- skafa Icelandic
- siafio Welsh
- skaban Old High German
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- kaapima Estonian
- *scavan Old Dutch
- *skavan Old Dutch
- *kaapidak Proto-Finnic
- *skambʰás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- skavan Old Saxon
- skava Old Swedish
- skava Westrobothnian
- skäva Westrobothnian
- *skaban Frankish
- sev Tok Pisin
- shefa Swati
- tjhefa South Ndebele