Old English · verb

scufan

Normalised sċūfan

Part of speech: verb
Verb class: strong class II
IPA: /ˈʃuː.fɑn/
[ˈʃuː.vɑn]
Syllables: ˈʃuː · fɑn (2 syllables)
Modern English: shove push launch

Meaning

to push, shove

"Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 4, verse 29

And they rose up and thrust him out of the city, and they brought him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might shove him down headlong.
to launch (a ship)

Conjugation

Conjugation of scufan
Indicative
	Present	Past
1st singular	sċūfe	sċēaf
2nd singular	sċȳfst	sċufe
3rd singular	sċȳfþ	sċēaf
Plural	sċūfaþ	sċufon
Subjunctive
Singular	sċūfe	sċufe
Plural	sċūfen	sċufen

Non-finite forms of scufan
	Form
Infinitive	sċūfan
Inflected infinitive	sċūfenne
Imperative singular	sċūf
Imperative plural	sċūfaþ
Present participle	sċūfende
Past participle	sċofen ġesċofen

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. Cognate with Old Frisian skūva (West Frisian skowe), Middle Low German schūven (Low German schuven), Middle Dutch scūven (Dutch schuiven), Old High German skioban, sciopan (German schieben), Old Norse skúfa (Faroese skúgva, Danish skubbe, Swedish skuffa), Gothic (afskiuban).

Descendants

shove

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