English
shog
Shog comes from Middle English schoggen ‘to shake up and down, jog’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schoggen‘to shake up and down, jog’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599shog
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500schoggen‘to shake up and down, jog’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599shog
Earliest quotation: 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fift: “Shall we shog? The king will be gone from…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *skek- ‘to jump’
through Proto-Germanic *skakaną ‘to shake’
through Proto-West Germanic *skakan ‘to shake’
through Middle Dutch schocken ‘to jolt, bounce’
Today it means
noun jolt, shake (brisk movement)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English schoggen / shog