An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/schäbig
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| This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry schäbig. | Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language |
schäbig, adjective, ‘shabby, sordid, scabby,’ from an earlier Modern High German Schabe, ‘scab, itch’; compare Middle High German sohębic, ‘scabby.’ Allied, like Anglo-Saxon sčęabb, English shab (shabby perhaps influenced the Modern High German meaning of schäbig), to schaben.