skyld
Danish
/skylˀ/
noun
Definitions
- blame, guilt responsibility for wrongdoing
- fault responsibility for a mistake
- sake
- debt
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse skuld inherited from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz (guilt, obligation, obliged).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skuldiz
Gloss
guilt, obligation, obliged
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Alleinschuld German
- Blutschuld German
- Bringschuld German
- Kollektivschuld German
- Kriegsschuld German
- Mitschuld German
- Schuld German
- Schuldenberg German
- Schuldgefühl German
- Schuldherr German
- Schuldkult German
- Schuldopfer German
- Schuldschein German
- Schuldsumme German
- Schuldvertrag German
- Staatsschuld German
- Unschuld German
- schuldgeplagt German
- unschuldig German
- *(s)kéltis Proto-Indo-European
- *skel- Proto-Indo-European
- skyld Norwegian Bokmål
- *skuldiz Proto-Germanic
- oskuld Swedish
- skuld Swedish
- skull Swedish
- skyldig Swedish
- skyld Norwegian Nynorsk
- sċyld Old English
- skuld Old Norse
- skuldleikr Old Norse
- skulu Old Norse
- skyldr Old Norse
- beskylde Danish
- skulle Danish
- skuld Icelandic
- sculd Old High German
- *skult Old Dutch
- skult Old Dutch
- sculdhētio Old Saxon
- skeld Old Frisian