Shuffle is first attested in the 16th century, probably of Low German origin, akin to Low German schuffeln ('to walk clumsily, shove'), a frequentative related to shove. The historical chain includes Low German schuffeln. The quoted older sense, "to walk clumsily, shove," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for shuffle. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word shuffle carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a verb, "to walk dragging the feet, or to rearrange a set such as cards". English derivatives include shuffler and shuffling; related English forms include scuffle and shove. The result is a verb and noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.