köken: Origin uncertain. Apparently related to German Low German schüün (“slanting, sloping”), Saterland Frisian schüün (“slanting, sloping”), West Frisian skean (“slanting, sloping”), Middle English askoin (“at a slant, askance”), Norwegian skeina (“to move obliquely”).
sidelong, slanting, awry, oblique · In a bad sense, envious, hostile
zıt: affābilis, amīcābilis, facilis, benevolēns
köken: Perhaps from ob- (“against”) + licinus (“bent upward”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to bend, to be movable.” However, De Vaan finds no credible Indo-European source and assigns no known etymology.
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *dh₃ǵʰmós (“oblique”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοχμός (dokhmós, “aslant, oblique”). The development of Sanskrit -j- from Proto-Indo-European *d is also seen in जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.