shunt

The story

1. Old English · inherited from*sċunettan
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skundijaną“to impel, hasten”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*skundijan
4. Old English · inherited fromsċyndan
5. Middle English · inherited from*schunden
6. Old English · inherited fromsċunian
7. Middle English · inherited fromschonen“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”
8. Middle English · inherited fromschonten
9. English todayshunt

From Middle English schonten, schunten (“to jerk, swerve; to dodge, escape”), either: * possibly a back-formation from Middle English schonen (“to avoid, refuse, hate, fear”), from Old English sċunian, sċyniġan; see shun. Or * an alteration of Middle English *schunden, *schynden, from Old English sċyndan, sċendan (“to hasten, hurry”) (as in āsċyndan (“to remove, take away”), from Proto-West Germanic *skundijan, from Proto-Germanic *skundijaną (“to impel, hasten”). * from unrecorded Old English *sċunettan, a derivative of sċunian (“to shun, avoid”). As regards the noun sense, compare Middle English shunt (“swerve; sudden jerk”), derived from the verb.

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