skön
Swedish
/ɧøːn/
adj
Definitions
- beautiful, fair
- comfortable (providing comfort and ease; agreeable)
Etymology
Derived from Old Swedish skön derived from Middle Low German schö̂ne (fine flour bread) derived from Old Saxon skōni (beautiful, shiny) derived from *skaunī (beautiful, fine) derived from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (beautiful, shining, shiny).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skauniz
Gloss
beautiful, shining, shiny
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Schoon English
- Scone English
- scone English
- sheen English
- sheener English
- sheenest English
- sheenful English
- sheenless English
- sheenly English
- kauneus Finnish
- kauniinvärinen Finnish
- kauniisti Finnish
- kaunis Finnish
- kauniskasvoinen Finnish
- kaunismuotoinen Finnish
- kaunispiirteinen Finnish
- kaunissointinen Finnish
- kaunistaa Finnish
- kaunisvartaloinen Finnish
- kaunisvärinen Finnish
- kaunisääninen Finnish
- kauno Finnish
- kuvankaunis Finnish
- luonnonkaunis Finnish
- *(s)kewh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)ḱoun- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)ḱown- Proto-Indo-European
- *skaunistaz Proto-Germanic
- *skauniz Proto-Germanic
- *skaunizô Proto-Germanic
- skönhet Swedish
- scene Old English
- sciene Old English
- scȳne Old English
- sċīene Old English
- shene Middle English
- skyn Old Norse
- bragðskyn Icelandic
- skyn Icelandic
- skynsemi Icelandic
- schoonbroot Middle Dutch
- sconi Old High German
- scōni Old High German
- sgonn Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- *skaunī gmw-pro
- kaunis Estonian
- kaunitar Estonian
- sconi Old Dutch
- scōni Old Dutch
- skōni Old Dutch
- *kaunis Proto-Finnic
- schone Middle Low German
- schö̂ne Middle Low German
- schȫne Middle Low German
- skoni Old Saxon
- skōni Old Saxon
- Schoon Alemannic German
- skön Old Swedish
- schöön German Low German