skör

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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.

Noun

skör f (genitive singular skarar, nominative plural skarir)

  1. an edge
  2. a ship's side

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References

  1. ^ “skör”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok ‎ (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.

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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 Superlative2
Common singular skör skörare skörast
Neuter singular skört skörare skörast
Plural sköra skörare skörast
Masculine plural3 sköre skörare skörast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 sköre skörare sköraste
All sköra skörare sköraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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