Proto-West Germanic *skeran

→ English shear (inherited)

→ Old English scieran (inherited)

→ Old English scear (inherited)

→ German scheren (inherited)

→ German Schere (inherited)

→ German schüren (inherited)

→ Middle Dutch scheren (inherited)

→ Middle English scheren (inherited)

→ Hunsrik Gescherr (derived)

→ Dutch scheren (inherited)

→ Dutch schaar (inherited)

→ Old Dutch skeran (inherited)

→ Old Dutch scoronlo (mention)

→ Old Frisian skera (inherited)

→ Old Saxon skeran (inherited)