The story
- Hebrew · derived fromשֵׂכֶל“intelligence”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromשׂכל“wit, sense, common sense”
- English todayseichel
Borrowed from Yiddish שׂכל (seykhl, “wit, sense, common sense”), from Hebrew שֵׂכֶל (sekhel, “intelligence”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.