Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skōhaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Uncertain. Perhaps derived from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”).^[1] A derivation from an alleged Proto-Indo-European verb *skewk-, supposedly from *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) (compare Proto-Germanic *skiwô (“cloud cover; cloud; sky”)), proposed in older literature, is dubious and not mentioned in Kroonen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɔː.xɑz/

*skōhaz m

1. shoe

   Synonym: *hrifilingaz

   Coordinate term: *sukkaz (“sock”)

• *gaskōhiją
• *handuskōhaz
• *skōhōną

• Proto-West Germanic: *skōh
  • Old English: sċōh
    • Middle English: sho, shoo
      • Scots: shae
      • English: shoe
  • Old Frisian: skōch, skō
    • Saterland Frisian: Skou, Schou
    • West Frisian: skoech
  • Old Saxon: skōh
    • Middle Low German: schō
      • German Low German: Schoh
  • Old Dutch: *scuoh, *scuo
    • Middle Dutch: scoech, scoe
      • Dutch: schoen
        • Afrikaans: skoen
      • Limburgish: sjoon
  • Old High German: skuoh, scūoh, skūo
    • Middle High German: schuoch, schuo
      • Alemannic German:

        Alsatian: Schüe

        Swabian: Schuah

      • Central Franconian: Schohn, Schuh, Schoh (Moselle Franconian)
      • German: Schuh
      • Luxembourgish: Schong
      • Yiddish: שוך (shukh)
• Old Norse: skór
  • Icelandic: skór
  • Faroese: skógvur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sko; (dialectal) skór'e, skór
  • Old Swedish: skō(r)
    • Swedish: sko
  • Danish: sko
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sko
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌷𐍃 (skōhs)