Word Origin Summary

*skikkijaną is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• schicken

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• szykanować

  Polish · derived from

• șicana

  Romanian · borrowed from

• шиканирати

  HBS · derived from

• schicken

  German · derived from

• chicaner

  French · derived from

• ĉikani

  Esperanto · derived from

• schikanieren

  German · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root