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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shalk

/ʃɔːk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
shalk
IPA
/ʃɔːk/
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A servant.

Obsolete

noun

A man; fellow.

British usage

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: schalk, scealc, *skalk, *skalkaz, *(s)kelH-

Usage

Inflected Forms

shalks (plural) schalk (alternative) schak (alternative) schaik (alternative) shack (alternative)

Rhymes With

talk walk hawk chalk by a long chalk cocktail fork stalk pickle fork balk squawk gawk awk

Questions

How do you pronounce shalk?
The recorded pronunciation is /ʃɔːk/.
What does shalk mean?
A servant.
Where does shalk come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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