• स्कव् (skav)

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₂- (“to poke, cut into, tear”), related to Hittite iskunant- (“spotted”) and Hittite iskunahhis (“marked”, 3sg.past), Lithuanian kiáuras (“perforated”), and maybe Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, Latin cutis (“skin”), Lithuanian kiáutas (“shell, rind, peel”) via the connection 'flaying' < 'tearing' (just as Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) is from δέρω (dérō, “to flay”)).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /sku/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /s̪ku/

स्कु • (sku)

1. to pick, pluck, tear
2. to poke
3. to cover

• Monier Williams (1899) “स्कु”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 1257/1.
• William Dwight Whitney (1885) The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 191

• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen ‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 751

• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 561
• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Hūdi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Buck, C. D. (2008) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 493