skhel-

skhel-
    skhel-
    English meaning: to stumble
    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘straucheln, fehltreten”
    Note: (?) only altind. and armen.
    Material: O.Ind. skhálatē ‘stolpert, sways, geht fehl”, skhalita- “taumelnd fehlgegangen; whereof etwas fehlt, to wenig”; Arm. sxalem, sxalim ‘strauchle, irre, sũndige, verfehle; werde verfehlt, vermißt, frail; tue eine Fehlgeburt”, sxal “fault, error, mistake, lack; fehlerhaft, lacking, to wenig”, sxalak “taumelnd (in intoxication)”.
    References: WP. II 599;
    See also: whether expressive formation to (s)kel-4?

Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.

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