[English Etymology] *sker- "to cut" ✂ "to turn, bend" ↪️

*sker-  "to cut" ✂



Eng bias 🎳 "balls made with a greater weight on one side (1560s); oblique or diagonal line," 
    French biais "a slant, a slope, an oblique,"
       ?Old Provençal biais,
              ?Vulgar Latin *(e)bigassius 
                     ?Greek epikarsios "athwart, crosswise, at an angle," = epi-  + karsios "oblique," 


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 *sker-   "to turn, bend"  ↪️


Eng curb "strap passing under the jaw of a horse to restrain the animal" 
      Old French courbe 
             Latin curvus "crooked, curved, bent" 


Latin curvatura "a bending"
      curvatus
             curvare "to bend"


Eng shrink
    Old English scrincan "to draw in the limbs, contract, shrivel up; wither, pine away; become reduced in size (13c.)"
         Proto-Germanic *skrink-