The story
- Middle High German · derived fromschiec“twisted, crooked”
- English todaySchick
* As a German and Jewish surname, from the adjective Schick (“well-mannered, proper”) (see below). This is also borrowed into Czech as Šik, compare Sik. * Also as a German surname, variant of Schiek, itself a variant of Schieck, from Middle High German schiec (“twisted, crooked”) (compare modern schief). Compare Shick, Sheek.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.