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Re: Scucca

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Monday, September 17, 2007, 23:52
Den 17. sep. 2007 kl. 16.39 skrev Benct Philip Jonsson:

> If you read German: > > (skuh) erschrecken ? In germ. skuhvu (skugvu): norw. mundartl. > skygg (aus skugvia-) scheu, furchtsam, mnd. schûwe, schû dass. > Ablautend mhd. schiech scheu, ags. scéoh (engl. shy). Dazu mhd. > schiuhe f., nhd. Scheu und das Vb. ahd. sciuhen, mhd. schiuhen, > schiuwen verscheuchen, intr. Scheu empfinden, nhd. scheuchen, > schwed. skygga scheu werden; eine Weiterbildung in nhd. schüchtern, > älter schüchter, ndl. schuchter, mnd. schuchtern scheuchen, vgl. > westfäl. schücht scheu (= *skuhti). Hierher auch ags. scucca Dämon, > Teufel und * scyccan (nur praet. scyhte) verführen ? (Oder gehört > ags. scucca mit an. skukka Runzel zusammen? vgl. an. skratti und > mhd. waltschrechel). Weiterbildung entweder zu sku 3, vgl. nnorw. > skýr (= *skûria) scheu, oder zu sku 4 (eig. »zur Seite springen«) : > vgl. ahd. scihtig scheu zur gleichbedeutenden Wz. skik.
Thanks, I suppose it must be related to IE *skeu- then. A reasonable departure point for a sinister spirit name I suppose. A suitable selection of derivative extensions should yield a useful Urianian word, or more, say _kadan_ or something like that. Den 17. sep. 2007 kl. 16.54 skrev Michael Poxon:
> The modern English version of this term is "Shock". Not the > electrical sort, but meaning a (vaguely demonic) spiritual > presence, bogle, etc. In this part of the world we have a ghostly > black dog called "Black Shuck" who has been seen on numerous > occasions. In the West of the county in the Fens, a local brweery > has him as their logo, and a marathon held at Bungay (Norfolk- > Suffolk border) is called the "Black Dog marathon", named after him.
Rather interesting. There is also a (rare) surname Shuck, which is how I got acquainted with the word. Wonder if there's some connection to the expletive shucks - origin unknown, my dictionary says. LEF