SH-Y-CH – ‘creative travail, work’

By this word should be understood all creative travail [labor]. It springs from the root שה, which expresses the effort of the soul toward any goal whatsoever. The facultative שוה, which comes from it, signifies to be-producing or uttering one’s thoughts, [Logos] whether by travail, or by speech. The Hellenists, and Saint Jerome, who has followed them, have seen in this word only a tender herb, a shrub…(The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 70)