skive

Etymology

This word probably comes from French esquiver (“slink away”), which developed from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), which itself came from Old French eschiver. That word was of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *skiuhs (“afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). It is cognate with English shy and eschew.