shalk

发音

/ʃɔːk/

词形变化

shalks 复数 shalks

别名

schalk schak schaik shack

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A servant.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    A man; fellow.

    英国 方言

词源

From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”).

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