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shimmer
shimmer:
[OE]
Shimmer
goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *
skim
- (source also of German
schimmern
‘glitter, gleam’). This was an extension of the base *
ski
-, from which English gets
sheer
and
shine
.
=>
sheer
,
shine