sker

sker

1. present of ske (to happen)

From Old Norse sker, from Proto-Germanic *skarją.

• IPA^(key): [ʃeːr]

sker n (genitive singular skers, plural sker)

1. (nautical, geography) skerry, reef

sker

1. he, she, it cuts; third-person singular present of skera (to cut)
2. cut! imperative of skera

sker

1. it happens; third-person singular present of ske (to happen)

From Old Norse sker, from Proto-Germanic *skarją. Compare Middle Low German schere, German Schere (“gap”), Old English scorian (“to project; jut”).

• IPA^(key): /scɛːr/

  Rhymes: -ɛːr

sker n (genitive singular skers, nominative plural sker)

1. reef, rock, skerry

From Proto-Germanic *skarją. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

sker n (genitive plural skerja)

1. rock in the sea, skerry

• Danish: skær
• Icelandic: sker
• Faroese: sker
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skjer
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjær
• Swedish: skär
• → Old Northern French: esquet, équet
• → Scots: skerry
  • → English: skerry

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sker

1. inflection of skera:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active

• “sker”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Dutch scheuren.

sker

1. to rip

Borrowed from Dutch scheren (“to shave”).

sker

1. to shave

sker

1. In marble games, having lost and being unable to pay marbles due to having ran out of marbles completely.

• → Dutch: skeer

sker

1. present indicative of ske

• reks