Etymology

shaky

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Today it means: Shaking or trembling. Full definition →

English shake ← Middle English schaken ← Old English sċacan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*skek-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skakaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*skakan
  4. Old Englishsċacan
  5. Middle Englishschaken
  6. Englishshake
  7. English todayshaky

From shake + -y.

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