schaf

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• Rhymes: -ɑf

schaf

1. inflection of schaffen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old English sċēaf.

schaf

1. Alternative form of scheef

From Old English ċeaf.

schaf

1. Alternative form of chaf

Inherited from Old High German scāf, from Proto-Germanic *skēpą.

• IPA^(key): (early) /s̠xɑːf/, (classical) /ʃɑːf/

schāf n (genitive singular schāfes, plural schāf)

1. sheep

• Alemannic German: Schooff

  Swabian: Schoaf

• Bavarian: Schåf

  Carinthian: Hap

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon German: Schåf

• German: Schaf
  • → Alemannic German: Schaf
• Hunsrik: Schof
• Luxembourgish: Schof
• Rhine Franconian: Schoof

  Palatine German: Schoof

  Pennsylvania German: Schof

• Vilamovian: siöf
• Yiddish: שאָף (shof)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “schâf”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel