Where does “sceallan” come from?

sceallan (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European (s)kelh₁- — to parch, wither.

sceallan (Old English): testicles

Definitions

  1. testicles

Ancestry of “sceallan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*skal-testicle
2Proto-Indo-European(s)kelh₁-to parch, wither
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)kelh₁- →Every word from Proto-Germanic *skal- →