skarper
Old Swedish
adjective
Definitions
- dry, shrivelled
- sharp
- shrill, piercing (sound)
- hard, difficult
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse skarpr inherited from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skarpaz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- skarpata Finnish
- skarppi Finnish
- scarpa Italian
- escarpe French
- *(s)kerb(ʰ) Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kerb- Proto-Indo-European
- skarp Norwegian Bokmål
- *skarpaz Proto-Germanic
- skarp Swedish
- skarp Norwegian Nynorsk
- scearp Old English
- sċearp Old English
- skarpr Old Norse
- skarpur Icelandic
- (*)scarp Old High German
- scarf Old High German
- scarf(i), scarf Old High German
- skarp Old Dutch
- skarp Old Saxon