Etymology

shove

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Today it means: To push, especially roughly or with force. Full definition →

Middle English schouven ← Old English sċūfan ← Proto-West Germanic *skeuban
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*skewbʰ-
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skeubaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*skeuban
  4. Old English · inherited fromsċūfan
  5. Middle English · inherited fromschouven
  6. English todayshove

From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skeubaną all →

scuff

Proto-Indo-European*skewbʰ- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.