Etymograph

English

reshave

From re- + shave.

Formed from re- + shave

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- ‘to cut, split, form, carve’

Proto-Germanic *skabaną ‘to scrape’

Proto-West Germanic *skaban ‘to scrape, shave’

Old English sċafan ‘to shave, scrape, shred, polish’

Middle English shaven

English shave

Today it means

verb to shave again

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “reshave”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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