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Where does “sċēaf” come from?

sċēaf (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic skaub, from Proto-Germanic skaubaz — bundle, sheaf.

Ancestry of “sċēaf”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicskaubbundle, sheaf
2Proto-Germanicskaubazbundle, sheaf

Words derived from “sċēaf”

  • sheaf
  • wheatsheaf
  • presheaf
  • capsheaf
  • sheaflike
  • sheafy
  • copresheaf
  • cosheaf
  • eigensheaf
  • sheafwise
  • subsheaf
  • sheafless
  • sheafification
  • schaf
  • scheef
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