The story
- German · derived fromSchaf“sheep”
- English todaySchaff
* As a German surname, variant of Schaaf. * As a Jewish surname, from German Schaf (“sheep”) or its Yiddish equivalent שאָף (shof). * Also as a German surname, from the noun Schaff (“tub, wooden barrel”), compare Scheffel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.