Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *skalkazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_skalkaz
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*xolkъbachelor
nounmasculinea-stemservantOf unknown origin, though the primary meaning of the root underlying the term may have been along the lines of "wry, wrong". Orel prefers connecting the word to Proto-Slavic *xolkъ (‘bachelor’) and *xolpъ (‘brat; serf’), reconstructing the shared root as a Proto-Indo-European *skel-; he appears to favor equating this reconstruction with *(s)kelH- (‘to cut’), taking the semantic development as "cut" > "maimed" > "servant".