Schacht
German Low German
[ʃaxt], [skaxt], [sxaxt]
noun
Definitions
- (in several dialects, including) a shaft, a pole to which something is attached
- (in some dialects, including) a cane, a stick
- (in several dialects, including) a beating
- (in several dialects) a shaft, a tunnel driven vertically into the ground
- (in several dialects, including) a bootleg, the part of a boot which covers the shin and calf
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Low German schacht inherited from Old Saxon skaft inherited from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (pole, shaft).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skaftaz
Gloss
pole, shaft
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftershaft English
- airshaft English
- camshaft English
- cockshaft English
- countershaft English
- crankshaft English
- driveshaft English
- foreshaft English
- hail shaft English
- hairshaft English
- jackshaft English
- layshaft English
- mainshaft English
- midshaft English
- mineshaft English
- prickshaft English
- propshaft English
- shaft English
- shaft bow English
- shaftless English
- shaftlike English
- shaftman English
- shaftment English
- shaftway English
- shaftwork English
- spearshaft English
- sunshaft English
- turboshaft English
- viewshaft English
- windshaft English
- Schacht German
- Schaft German
- wipfelschäftig German
- ша́хта Russian
- шахта Russian
- *skaftaz Proto-Germanic
- シャフト Japanese
- sceaft Old English
- sċeaft Old English
- schaft Middle English
- skapt Old Norse
- šachta Czech
- skaft Old High German
- šaht Estonian
- skaft Old Dutch
- schacht Middle Low German
- giskaft Old Saxon
- skaft Old Saxon