skyr

Borrowed from Icelandic skyr.

• (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɪər/

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

skyr (uncountable)

1. A yogurt-like product made of curdled milk, curds stored up for food; a thick dairy product unique to Icelandic cuisine.

• skyr on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• kyrs, skry

Borrowed from Icelandic skyr n, from Old Norse skyr. Doublet of skør.

• IPA^(key): /skyːˀr/, or IPA^(key): /skiːr/,

skyr c (singular definite skyren, not used in plural form)

1. skyr, curled milk

• “skyr” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Icelandic skyr.

• IPA^(key): /skir/

skyr m (uncountable)

1. skyr

From Old Norse skyr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːɹ/
• Rhymes: -iːɹ

skyr n (genitive singular skyrs, uncountable)

1. skyr

From the Old Norse skyr (“thick curdled milk”, literally “separated”), from skera (“to divide”). ^[1][2][3]

Related to the terms Danish skør (dialect), skørost (dialect), Norwegian Nynorsk skyr (“buttermilk, cultured milk”), skjør, skjørost, and many similar terms in Swedish dialects. The Latin term lac concretum (“thick milk”) is found in Tacitus' Germania. Possibly borrowed into English as English scurvy.

• IPA^(key): /scɪːr/
• Rhymes: -ɪːr

skyr n (genitive singular skyrs, no plural)

1. skyr (yogurt-like product made of curdled milk)

• sletta
• ólekja

• skyr on the Icelandic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^is

• skir, skire, skyre

From Old Norse skírr, from Proto-Germanic *skīriz. Doublet of schyre.

• IPA^(key): /skiːr/

skyr

1. clear-coloured, pale, light, luminous, radiant
2. (rare) clear, noticeable, discernible
3. (rare) unadulterated, undiluted, full-strength
4. (rare) untainted, unaffected, secure

• English: skire (obsolete), sheer
• Scots: skyre

• “skīr(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-01.

skyr

1. present of sky

From Old Norse skyr. Akin to skjera.

• IPA^(key): /ʃʏːr/

skyr n (definite singular skyret, indefinite plural skyr, definite plural skyra)

1. alternative form of skjør (“sour milk”)

• skyrost (“sour milk cheese”)

skyr

1. present of sky

skyr

1. present of sky