'Shoe' is one of the most stable words in Germanic — virtually identical across every Germanic language.
A covering for the foot, typically made of leather, having a sturdy sole and not reaching above the ankle.
From Old English 'scōh' (shoe, sandal, footwear), from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (shoe), of disputed but intriguing ultimate origin. The most widely discussed PIE candidate is *skeu- (to cover, to conceal, to protect), which produced Latin 'obscūrus' (dark, covered, hidden), English 'sky' (from Old Norse 'ský,' cloud — that which covers), and 'hide' (both the animal skin and the verb, to conceal, through *skeu-). If this etymology is correct, a shoe is literally 'the thing that covers (the foot).' The same semantic
The plural of 'shoe' was originally 'shoon' in Old and Middle English (like 'ox/oxen'), and this form survived in some English dialects well into the nineteenth century. The regularized plural 'shoes' gradually replaced it, but 'shoon' lingered longest in Scottish and Northern English dialects.