Släkthistoria för Shale
Shale Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from an unrecorded Middle English *shail ‘a crooked gait a shuffling’ (attested in the adverb ashayle 1530 in OED at shail n. ) derived from Middle English shailen ‘to stumble shuffle’. It was probably related to shailard see Shayler.variant of Seal from Nether- or Overseal (Derbys) recorded in medieval records as Seyle and Scheyle.alternatively perhaps a variant of Sale with a palatalized pronunciation of initial S- as Sh-.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
