skeið
Icelandic
/sceiːð/
noun
Definitions
- a spoon
- a spoonful, a spoon
- (in the plural) a scabbard
- (anatomy) a vagina
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse skeið (sley, reed, space of time, piece of way, race course, race, sheath, warship, course, a race, a ship, a sheath, ship) derived from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (covering, sheath).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skaiþiz
Gloss
covering, sheath
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- astrosheath English
- desheath English
- exsheath English
- heliosheath English
- insheath English
- magnetosheath English
- presheath English
- resheath English
- rhizosheath English
- sheath English
- sheathbill English
- sheather English
- sheathless English
- sheathlike English
- sheathotomy English
- sheathy English
- unsheath English
- Blattscheide German
- Scheide German
- Scheidenpilz German
- Schwertscheide German
- Seescheide German
- bladschede Dutch, Flemish
- schede Dutch, Flemish
- zwaardschede Dutch, Flemish
- *skey- Proto-Indo-European
- skei Norwegian Bokmål
- skje Norwegian Bokmål
- *skaiþaną Proto-Germanic
- *skaiþiz Proto-Germanic
- skede Swedish
- skei Norwegian Nynorsk
- sceaþ Old English
- sċēaþ Old English
- sheth Middle English
- skeið Old Norse
- skede Danish
- klukka Icelandic
- matskeið Icelandic
- matur Icelandic
- nám Icelandic
- námskeið Icelandic
- skeiðklukka Icelandic
- schede Middle Dutch
- sceida Old High German
- skeida Old High German
- skeið Faroese
- scheide Middle High German
- Scheed Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- Scheedenagank Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *skaiþiju gmw-pro
- skedh Old Swedish
- scáeth Middle Irish