Noun: Scheu
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like Scheu
Passwortsicherheit,
Ökologieverträglichkeit,
Stunde der Wahrheit,
Seeräuberei,
Bluegrass,
Unschärferelation,
Geburtshilfe,
Elektrophysiologie,
Zitronschale,
Sperrschrift,
Schwermut,
Geopolitik,
Polymorphie,
Schwampel,
Lachlosigkeit,
Dresche,
Zeitgeschichte,
Eudämonismus,
Kollektivismus,
Altersdiskriminierung, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle High German schiech (“despondent, frightening, ugly”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh (“shy, fearful”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“shy, fearful”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian skjou (“shy”), Dutch schuw (“shy”), English shy, Danish sky (“shy”), and doublet of schiech. See: English Nouns '
shy', Danish Nouns '
sky'.
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