Etymology

shuckle

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Today it means: To sway back and forth during Jewish prayer. Full definition →

Yiddish שאָקלען ← Proto-Germanic *skukkijaną
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skukkijaną
  2. Yiddish · borrowed fromשאָקלען
  3. English todayshuckle

From Yiddish שאָקלען (shoklen). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skukkijaną.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.