Shalk Definition
Other Word Forms of Shalk
Noun
Singular:
shalk
Plural:
shalksOrigin of Shalk
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From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“rogue”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) (> Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic (skalks, “servant”).
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