skull
Swedish
/skɵlː/
noun
Definitions
- (for someone's) sake, (on someone's) behalf; an archaic form of skuld (debt), used to indicate for whom or why something is done
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse skuld derived from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz (guilt, obligation, obliged) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéltis.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kéltis
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *(s)kéltis Proto-Indo-European
- *skel- Proto-Indo-European
- skyld Norwegian Bokmål
- *skuldiz Proto-Germanic
- skuld Swedish
- skyld Norwegian Nynorsk
- sċyld Old English
- skuld Old Norse
- skuldleikr Old Norse
- skyldr Old Norse
- skyld Danish
- skuld Icelandic
- sculd Old High German
- *skult Old Dutch
- skult Old Dutch
- sculdhētio Old Saxon
- skeld Old Frisian