schuld

Dutch (Brabantic)

/sxʏlt/

noun
Definitions
  • (finance) debt, account payable
  • (law) any obligor’s duty to perform
  • blame, fault responsibility for a mishap or mistake
  • (law) guilt, culpability
  • guilt; fault condition of moral deficiency

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch schuld inherited from Old Dutch skult inherited from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz (guilt, obligation, obliged).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*skuldiz

Gloss

guilt, obligation, obliged

Concept
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