skam
Swedish
/skam/
noun
Definitions
- shame; something to deeply regret
- shame; feeling caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish skam inherited from Old Norse skǫmm inherited from Proto-Germanic *skamō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skamō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *(s)kēt- Proto-Indo-European
- skam Norwegian Bokmål
- *skamō Proto-Germanic
- flyg Swedish
- flygskam Swedish
- skamlig Swedish
- skamlös Swedish
- skam Norwegian Nynorsk
- scamu Old English
- sċamu Old English
- skǫmm Old Norse
- skam Danish
- skamfuld Danish
- skömm Icelandic
- scama Old High German
- skomm Faroese
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌼𐌰 Gothic
- skama Old Saxon
- skábma Northern Sami
- skam Old Swedish
- skæmm Westrobothnian
- skam Old Danish