schakel

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxaː.kəl/

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• Hyphenation: scha‧kel
• Rhymes: -aːkəl

From Middle Dutch schākel, from Old Dutch *skakul, from Proto-West Germanic *skakul, from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz.

schakel m or f (plural schakels, diminutive schakeltje n)

1. shackle (chain shackle)
2. link of a chain
3. link, connection

   De ontwerpen vormen een schakel tussen twee werelden: het verleden en de toekomst.

   The designs form a link between two worlds: the past and the future.

4. association, contact

• (shackle): sluiting
• (chain link): schalm
• (connection): band, link

• Afrikaans: skakel
• Berbice Creole Dutch: skalki, skaliki

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

schakel

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

• schakil, schakkyl, schakle, schakyll, shakel, shakill, shakyl, shakyll
• shekyl (from Old English sċecel)

Inherited from Old English sċacul, sċecel, from Proto-West Germanic *skakul, *skakil, from Proto-Germanic *skakulaz, *skakilaz; equivalent to schaken (“to shake”) +‎ -el (agentive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaːkəl/, /ˈʃakəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛːkəl/, /ˈʃɛkəl/ (from Old English sċecel)

schakel (plural schakeles)

1. A shackle or fetter (restraint for limbs)
2. A clevis (U-shaped coupling)

• schakelen

• English: shackle
  • → Danish: sjækkel
  • → Norwegian: sjakkel
  • → Swedish: schackel
  • → Marshallese: jakōļ
• Middle Scots: schaikill, schakill, schekill
  • Scots: shakle, shackle, sheckle

• “shā̆kel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.