skørbug
Danish
/skørbuːˀ/
noun
Definitions
- scurvy deficiency of vitamin C
Etymology
Com from Danish skør (indecent, curdled milk, fragile) + Danish bug (stomach)inherited from Old Norse skyrbjúgr (scurvy), skyr (thick curdled milk, separated, coagulated milk, sour milk) + Old Norse bjúgr (swelling).
Origin
Old Norse
bjúgr
Gloss
swelling
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiscurvy English
- scurvied English
- scurvily English
- scurviness English
- scurvy English
- scurvywort English
- keripukki Finnish
- scorbutus Latin
- buik Dutch, Flemish
- scheur Dutch, Flemish
- scheurbuik Dutch, Flemish
- ascorbique French
- scorbut French
- scorbutique French
- escorbuto Spanish, Castilian
- skjør Norwegian Bokmål
- *skurją Proto-Germanic
- skörbjugg Swedish
- skjør Norwegian Nynorsk
- bjúgleikr Old Norse
- bjúgr Old Norse
- búkr Old Norse
- skyr Old Norse
- skyrbjúgr Old Norse
- bug Danish
- bughule Danish
- skrupskør Danish
- skør Danish
- skørhed Danish
- skørlevned Danish
- skørost Danish
- skyr Icelandic
- skyr Faroese
- schorbuk Middle Low German
- skørbiugh Old Swedish
- skorbut Slovene