scelfan

== Old English == === Alternative forms === sċylfan — Late West Saxon === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *skelbaną, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”), and therefore related to Old English sċylfe (shelf) Cognate with Old Norse skjálfa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃel.fɑn/, [ˈʃeɫ.vɑn] === Verb === sċelfan to shake, quiver, totter ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== cweċċan hrisian sċeacan tealtrian sċūdan === Further reading === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “scelfan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.