Many thanks 11:29 Nov 9, 2022
to everyone, for taking the trouble either to answer, or to just indicate your level of agreement with the suggestions already offered. Esp. to Gustav for providing a nice 'palette' of adjectives, and to Andrew, for a sharing a very interesting train of thought: If I'm allowed a somewhat over-simplified expansion, you're basically suggesting that each language at some point came to assimilate a 'kind of northern' and a 'kind of southern' version of the concept of 'shyness'. And that this may have had such a tangible semantic impact on the words, that it's possibly one of the reasons why we now 'match' shy with blyg (both were 'kind of northern' concepts in relation to the respective language and the geographic dispersion of the people speaking it), and likewise, timid and skygg (both were 'kind of southern' in relation to bla bla); although shy and skygg are the ones etymologically connected.
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peer agreement (net): +2