Words that come from Proto-West Germanic “skeran”

106 words across 23 languages descend from Proto-West Germanic skeran — including shear, shearing, shorn, shears, unshorn, shearer, shearwater, shearling.

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English (31)

German (17)

Dutch (12)

Middle English (7)

Old High German (6)

Middle High German (5)

Middle Dutch (4)

Old English (4)

Yiddish (3)

Old Dutch (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Old Frisian (2)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Italian (1)

French (1)

Hungarian (1)

Georgian (1)

Russian (1)

Old Saxon (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Alemannic German (1)