Noun: shalk
| Singular | shalk |
| Plural | shalks |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like shalk
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English schalk, scalk, from Old English scealc (“servant; man, soldier, sailor”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz (“servant, knight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cleave, separate, part, divide”). Cognate with German Schalk (“joker”), Old Norse skálkr (“servant, rogue”) ( > Danish and Swedish skalk), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “servant”). See: Middle English Nouns '
schalk', Old English Nouns '
scealc', German Nouns '
Schalk', Old Norse Nouns '
skálkr', Swedish Nouns '
skalk', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃'.
Verbs referencing "shalk"
Dutch Nouns
schalk.