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Russian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from German Skalde or directly from Old Norse skald.
Pronunciation
Noun
скальд • (skalʹd) m anim (genitive ска́льда, nominative plural ска́льды, genitive plural ска́льдов)
- skald
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Armenian: սկալդ (skald)
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “скальд”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress