skē̆ i-bh-, -p-, nasalized ski-m-bh-

    skē̆ i-bh-, -p-, nasalized ski-m-bh-

    English meaning: slant; to limp

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schief, hinken(d)”

    Material: O.Ice. skeifr ‘slant, skew” (*skoipo-), O.E. scüf, scüb ds. (in scüf-fōt ‘schieffũßig”), M.L.G. schēf ds. (Ger. dial. scheif), next to which (*skēipo-) M.H.G. (md. nd.) schief, and (as Gmc. *skibba-) hess.-fränk. schepp ‘slant, skew”, as well as (as Gmc. *skippa-) M.H.G. schipfes adv. “quer”; Lith. paskybei “quer”, skybas “keilförmiges Stũck Land”; Ltv. šḱ ībs ‘slant, skew”, šḱ ieb-u, - t ‘schief neigen, kippen”; compare Gk. σκίψαι ὀκλάσαι. ᾽Αχαιοί Hes.; nasalized Gk. σκιμβός “lame”, σκιμβάζειν “hinken”. IE skē̆ i-p-, -bh- extended from skē̆ i-, compare *skai-u̯o-s (*skǝi-u̯o-s) ‘slant, skew, link”; besides M.H.G. schie-f steht schǣ he and schie-c; zur unerweiterten root perhaps Nor. skina, skjena “biesen”, O.S. skena “durchgehen” (of Pferde), ablaut. Nor. skeina ‘schief zur Seite fliegen”.

    References: WP. II 546, Wissmann nom. postverb. 151.