The story
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*skikkijan“to order, arrange”
- Old Saxon · derived from*skikkian
- Middle Low German · derived fromschicken
- Middle French · derived fromchicaner
- French · derived fromchicanerie“trickery”
- English todaychicanery
From French chicanerie (“trickery”), from chicaner, from Middle French chicaner, borrowed from Middle Low German schicken, from Old Saxon *skikkian, from Proto-West Germanic *skikkijan (“to order, arrange”). Related to German schicken (“to send, ship”), Middle English skekken (“to send forth, issue”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.