Feminine

Scheu

shyness

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schyychi

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃɔɪ̯/
Etymology

In summary

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.

çekingenlik

utangaçlık

verecundia

sıkılganlık

nieśmiałość

pudor

شهرم

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