skyrta

According to Vladimir Orel from *skurti. Cognate to Old Norse skyrta, Middle Low German schorte (“shirt”). From the same source like Albanian shkurt (“short”) and shkurte (“shirt”); which was probably borrowed from a Germanic language, although unlikely.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈscɪr̥ta/

  Rhymes: -ɪr̥ta

skyrta f (genitive singular skyrtu, nominative plural skyrtur)

1. shirt

   Farðu í skyrtuna þína.

   Put your shirt on.

   Þetta er gömul skyrta, þú ættir að kaupa nýja.

   That's an old shirt, you should buy a new one.

   Ég á hvorki skyrtu né bindi, þannig að ég mætti bara í bol.

   I don't have a shirt or a tie, so I showed up just wearing a T-shirt.

From Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ.

skyrta f (genitive skyrtu)

1. shirt

• Icelandic: skyrta
• Faroese: skjúrta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skyrta, skjorte (possibly from Swedish); (dialectal) skjørte, skjurte
• Old Swedish: skiurta, skiorta
  • Swedish: skjorta
• Danish: skjorte
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjorte
• → Middle English: skyrte, skyrt, skirt, skirte, skyrtt, skyrthe, scyrt, scyrtte, skyrtte
  • English: skirt (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: skirt
  • → Welsh: sgert
• → Middle Irish: scirta
  • Irish: sciorta

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “skyrta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive