skör

See also: skor, skór, skør, and S. Kor.

Icelandic

Etymology

From or related to Old Norse sker (“rock in the sea”). See also Swedish skär (“edge, skerry”), Danish skær, English shore.[1]

Noun

skör f (genitive singular skarar, nominative plural skarir)

  1. an edge
    Synonyms: rönd, brún, kantur
  2. a ship's side
    Synonym: súð

Declension

Declension of skör (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skör skörin skarir skarirnar
accusative skör skörina skarir skarirnar
dative skör skörinni skörum skörunum
genitive skarar skararinnar skara skaranna

Derived terms

  • gera skör sína eftir
  • láta ganga af skörum
  • láta til skarar skríða (compare hefjast handa)
  • loftskör
  • sitja skör hærra
  • sitja skör lægra
  • skríða með skörunum
  • tjaldskör
  • torfuskör (confer hnakki)
  • um skör fram, fyrir skör fram úr hófi
  • þykja skörin vera farin að færast upp í bekkinn, þykja skörin vera farin að færa sig upp í bekkinn

References

  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “skör”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
  1. ^ “skör”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎[1] (in Swedish), 1937

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish skør, skyr, from Low German schör (“weak, fragile”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *skuriz, derived from the verb *skeraną (“to cut”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk skjør.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

skör (comparative skörare, superlative skörast)

  1. brittle, fragile
    sköra ben
    brittle bones
  2. frail
    sköra äldre
    frail elderly people
  3. (obsolete) sexually immoral (from notion of easily giving in to temptation), lecherous, wanton, unchaste

Declension

Inflection of skör
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular skör skörare skörast
neuter singular skört skörare skörast
plural sköra skörare skörast
masculine plural2 sköre skörare skörast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 sköre skörare sköraste
all sköra skörare sköraste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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