An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/schieben

by Friedrich Kluge

schieben, verb, ‘to shove, push,’ from the equivalent Middle High German schieben, Old High German scioban; compare Gothic af-skiuban, ‘to thrust away,’ Old Icelandic skúfa, skýfa, ‘to push,’ Anglo-Saxon sčûfan, ‘to shove, push,’ English to shove. The root skū̆b, ‘to shove’ (from pre-Teutonic skū̆p), which appears also in Schaufel, Schober, and Schüppe, corresponds to the Sanscrit root chup, ‘to touch,’ with which Lithuanian skubrùs, skubùs, ‘quick,’ and skùbti, ‘to make haste’ (Aryan rout skub), and Old Slovenian skubąti, ‘to pluck,’ are also probably allied. See Schupf.