skära

Swedish

/ˈɧæːˌra/

verb-irr

Definitions

to cut, to perform an incision
to cut, to make reductions in a budget
to cut, to divide something with a knife, etc.
(reflexive) to cut oneself, to accidentally or intentionally hurt oneself with a sharp object
(reflexive) to curdle, said of milk, a sauce, etc.
(geometry) to cut, to intersect, to cross
(archaic) to purify, to cleanse one's soul

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish skæra inherited from Old Norse skera (cut) inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (shear, shave, cut) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*(s)ker-

Gloss

cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp

Concept

Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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