English
shuckle
Shuckle comes from Yiddish שאָקלען ‘to shuckle’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *skukkijaną ‘to move’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skukkijaną‘to move’reconstructed
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350schucken
- Yiddishmodernשאָקלעןshoklen‘to shuckle’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000shuckle
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*skukkijaną‘to move’reconstructed
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350schucken
- Yiddishmodernשאָקלעןshoklen‘to shuckle’
- Englishearliest quotation 2000shuckle
Earliest quotation: 2000, David Golinkin, Why Do Jews Sway When They Pray: “Jewish students and rabbis don't get enough exercise. Therefore,…”
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *skukkijaną
Today it means
verb To sway back and forth during Jewish prayer.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *skukkijaną / shuckle