Proto-Germanic: *skafta-n
Meaning: stick, spear
Old Norse: skapt n. `Schaft, Stab, Stange, Griff'
Norwegian: skaft
Swedish: skaft
Danish: skaft
Old English: sceaft `Schaft, Speer'
English: shaft
Old Frisian: skeft
Old Saxon: skaft `Speer'
Middle Dutch: scacht, scaft m. `stang, staak, stok, schacht, speer, maat'
Dutch: schacht, schaft f. `Federkiel, Lanzenschaft'
Old Franconian: scaft m. `sagitta'
Old High German: scaft (8.Jh.) `schacht, speer, lans'
Middle High German: schaft st. m. '(Speer)stange, Lanze, Stange oder Stangenähnliches'
German: Schaft m., Schacht
