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Sch ‘rape, seduction,’ skâk, ‘booty, robbery,’  sčeâcêre, ‘robber';  *skêka, ‘robbery,’ is wanting. The cognates passed into ;   échec, ‘robbery.’ Other terms related to the  cognates are not found in the Aryan languages.  ,, ‘to chaffer, haggle,’ only, allied to  suchar, ‘gain.’   (1.),, ‘shaft’ (of a pit), from the  schaht, ;  the  form of. See the following word.

 (2.),, ‘square rood,’ only, from the   schacht, which is identical with. —   ,, ‘shave-grass,’ likewise from , for the  term is schaftel, , a  of the  word for.   ,, ‘box, bandbox,’ from the late  schahtel, , which, with its equally late variant schatel, is borrowed from  scatola, ‘bandbox, box.’ The change of the simple t into cht in  and  has not yet been explained; , however,  schahtelân and schatelan for kastelân. — is a recent loan-word with the same signification. , ‘old woman,’ occurs even in late, in which schahtel also means ‘feminal.’ The latter looks a loan-word for  schaftel, from.   ,, ‘damage, harm, injury,’ from schade,  scado, , ‘damage, destruction, disadvantage’; corresponding to the   schade  skaðe,. Further skaðe,  scado,  scaðo,  sčęaþa,, ‘robber, foe,’ allied to  skaþjan, ‘to injure, act unjustly,’  sčęþþan, ‘to injure,’  scadôn,  and  schaden. An Aryan root skā̆́th, corresponding to the root skaþ, appears in  ἀσκηθής, ‘unscathed.’   ,, ‘skull,’ from schědel, , ‘skull,’ and also ‘a dry measure’; ullied to  schedel, ; unknown to the other   (in  gëbal, ‘skull,’ like  κεφαλή; see ). Its connection with is conceivable.   ,, ‘sheep,’ from the  schâf,  scâf, ; common to West  in the same sense;   scâp, ,  schaap, ,  sčęâp, ,  sheep; in  lamb (see ),  fœ́r, , ‘sheep,’ whence Fœ́r-eyjar, ‘the Faroe Isles’ ( ‘sheep isles’). skêpo- (for *skêqo-) corresponds perhaps to châga, ‘he-goat.’ Yet Aryan owis, by inference from  ovis,  ὄϝις,  ávis, and  avìs ( ovĭca), was the oldest term which is preserved in  and a few  ;   awistr, ‘sheepfold,’ *aweiþi, ‘flock of sheep,’  ou,  ęwi,  eowu, and  ewe (to which to yean from ge-eánian is allied?). —   , in the phrase, ‘to feather one's nest,’ is usually explained as a corruption of schepken, ‘barque.’ Perhaps it is, however, an ironical application of a passage in the parable of the Good Shepherd. <section end="Schäfchen" /> <section begin="Schaff" /> ,, ‘vessel,’ ; see. <section end="Schaff" /> ,, ‘to create, procure, obtain, bring,’ from schaffen,  scaffan, ‘to create, effect, arrange, do, make.’ Also in a similar sense  scępfen, skęffen,  gaskapjan,  sčyppan,  scęppian and  *skapôn,  scaffôn,  schaffen. These imply a root skap peculiar to, the connection of which with is not quite certain; see also. had a number of derivatives from the same root, such as , , and  shape; see the following word and. <section begin="Schaffner" /> ,, ‘purveyor, steward, manager,’ from the  schaffenœre, , of which the  variant schaffœre occurs; allied to ; see also. <section end="Schaffner" /> <section begin="Schafott" /> ,, ‘scaffold,’ only, from  echafaut, earlier chafaut, through the medium of  schavot?. <section end="Schafott" /> <section begin="Schaft" />  (1.),, ‘shaft, handle, trunk, stalk,’ from schaft,  scaft, , ‘shaft, spear, lance’;   skaft, , ‘spear,’  schacht, , ‘quill, shaft of a lance,’  sčęaft,  shaft,  skapt, , ‘pole, spear’;  *skafta- is by chance not recorded. These cognates can scarcely be related to, they are connected rather with  ( ‘that which has been scraped or made smooth’?). It is most closely allied to σκῆπτρον, ‘staff,’ akin to  (Pindar) σκᾶπτον, σκήπων, ‘staff’; further  scâpus, ‘shaft’; hence  skā̆p-, ‘shaft.’

 (2.),, ‘shelves, bookcase, only; from  schaf, ‘vessel for containing liquids’?. For the latter see. <section end="Schaft" /> <section begin="Schakal" /> ,, ‘jackal,’ only,<section end="Schakal" />