Etymology Explorer › Middle Low German

Where does “schûven” come from?

schûven (Middle Low German) comes from Proto-Germanic skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European skewbʰ- — to push.

Ancestry of “schûven”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicskeubanąto push, drive
2Proto-Indo-Europeanskewbʰ-to push
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