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Sch scina, ‘needle,’ points to a *skinô,, ‘narrow piece of bone or metal.’ Of the  history of the cognates it can only be said, however, that by inference from  scîœ, sceó, ‘shin,’ the root must be skī̆. From are derived  schiniera, ‘greaves for a horse,’ and probably also  schiena,  échine, ‘spine,’ with their  cognates.   ,, see.  ,, ‘clear, pure, simple, sheer,’ from  schîr, ‘mere, pure, glittering’;   skîr, skîri,  scîr, ‘pure, glittering,’  shere, sheer,  skírr,  skeirs, ‘clear, manifest’; a derivative of the root skî, ‘to shine, glitter.’ In  this  has been confused in sound with the following , yet the  form may be also of  origin. See. ,, ‘almost,’ from schiere, , ‘quickly, soon,’  sciaro, older skêro, , ‘quickly’; allied to  sciari, scêri, , ‘sagacious, zealous in tracing out’;   schier, ‘almost’ ( skýrr, skœ́rr, ‘bright, clear’).  ,, ‘lawn, veil,’ only, borrowed from ;  the  of the.   ,, ‘hemlock,’ from the  schirlinc, schęrlinc ( -ges),  scęriling;   scheerling. Derived, like the variants schęrninc,  and  scęrning, ‘hemlock,’ from the   scarno, ; the l of the, , and  forms is due to the current  suffix. The term is unknown to the other  (in  hymlic, hemleác occur,  hemlock).   ,, ‘to shoot,’ from the  schieȥen,  scioȥan; the corresponding  occurs in the same sense in all the  ;   skeotan ( schieten),  sčeótan ( to shoot),  skjóta,  (by chance not recorded) *skiutan. The root skut, ‘to shoot,’ from pre- skud, is widely diffused in, and corresponds to the root kšud, ‘to shatter, excite,’ or better with  skund, ‘to leap forth.’ For derivatives see , , , and.   ,, ‘ship,’ from the  schif,  scif, scëf ( -ffes), ; a common  term;   and  skip, ,  sčip, ,  ship,  schip,  scip. The word also signifies ‘vessel,’ being rendered in a gloss as   to its derivative  sciphî, ‘phiala’ ( vessel in its double sense, borrowed from  vaisseau, ‘vessel (a utensil), ship,’  σκαφίς, ‘bowl, skiff’). The term with σκάφος, ‘boat, ship,’ cannot be allied to the  word, since the latter implies an Aryan i in the stem syllable. No certain etymological explanation can be given of skipa-; the suspicion that the word was borrowed at a  period may not be unfounded, for there are only a very few nautical words possessed in common by several Aryan languages. From the word passed into ;   schifo,  esquif, ‘boat,’ to which is allied  esquiper, ‘to equip a ship,’ with a  p,  équiper, ‘to equip, endow,’ which passed again into.    (1.),, ‘shield, coat of arms,’ from the  schilt,  scilt, ; a common  term;   skildus, ,  skjǫldr,  scyld,  shield,  schild,  scild. The word first signified ‘signboard’ in early. The specifically term skildu-s (from skeldhus, skeltús?) cannot be traced farther back; it can scarcely be related to  (,  ‘that which gives a loud sound or resounds’?).

 (2.),, ‘signboard,’ only, a variant of the foregoing; hence  ( stem) in compounds such as , ‘sentry-box.’  ,, ‘to paint, depict, describe,’ allied to schilt, ‘coat of arms’;   schiltœre, , ‘artist’; the shields were  painted in the  age of chivalry with coats of arms, and even, according to Tacitus, Germ. vi. (“scuta lectissimis coloribus distinguunt”), in the heroic period. schilderen, ‘to paint, depict, describe.’  ,, ‘tortoise-shell,’ only, from  and  schildpad, ‘tortoise’ and ‘tortoise-shell.’ The early history of  padde, ‘toad,’  puddock and  padda, ‘toad,’ is obscure. <section end="Schildpatt" /> <section begin="Schilf" /> ,, ‘rush, bulrush, reed,’ from the  schilf,  sciluf ( and ?); unknown to the other  ; perhaps it is an early loan-word from  scirpus, ‘rush,’ to which it cannot be  allied. Others, regarding as a genuine  word, connect it with  sceliva,  schelfe, ‘bowl of fruit and pulse.’ <section end="Schilf" />