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Icelandic
Verb
skelf
- first-person singular active present indicative of skjálfa
Scots
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle Dutch schelf (“a scale, flake or splinter of wood”).
Noun
skelf (plural skelfs)
- A splinter or sliver of wood.
- Synonym: spail
- A thin or diminutive person.
1992, Iain Banks, The Crow Road:'Like I say; I could have got the baby-sitter to help me with him, but she's just a skelf...not our regular girl.'- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
From Middle English schelfe and Old Norse skjalf, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skelfō.
Noun
skelf (plural skelfs)
- Shelf.
Verb
skelf (third-person singular simple present skelfs, present participle skelfin, simple past skelft, past participle skelft)
- To lay or set (a person or thing) up, as on a high shelf; to elevate in importance.