skär

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• IPA^(key): /ɧæːr/
• Rhymes: -æːr

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Borrowed from French chair (“meat”), from the phrase couleur de chair (“carnation”).

skär (comparative skärare, superlative skärast)

1. pink (having a color between red and white, sometimes with a hint of beige, as in the skin color of white people)

• (pink): rosa (never with a beige hue)

From Old Norse sker. Cognate to English skerry, Irish sceir, Scottish Gaelic sgeir, Danish skær, Norwegian Bokmål skjær, Norwegian Nynorsk skjer, Icelandic sker, Faroese sker, and Finnish kari.

skär n

1. a skerry (small rocky island, often elongated)

   kobbar och skär

   islets and skerries

• skärgård

• → Russian: шхе́ра (šxéra)

• kobbe

From Old Swedish skær, from Old Norse skærr (“pure, bright, clear”), in turn from Proto-Germanic *skairiz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱēy- (“luster, gloss, shadow”). Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hirrë (“whey, serum”).

skär (comparative skärare, superlative skärast)

1. (dated) pure, clean

   ren och skär tur

   pure luck (idiomatic – can also be expressed as "ren tur")

• skärseld
• skärtorsdag
• skärgård

• oskärad
• ren och skär
• skir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

skär

1. inflection of skära:
   1. present indicative
   2. imperative

• skär in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skär in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skär in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• skär in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• särk