skall

See also: skäll

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Verb

skall (third-person singular simple present skalls, present participle skalling, simple past and past participle skalled)

  1. (obsolete) To scale; to mount

Icelandic

Verb

skall (strong)

  1. first-person singular past indicative of skella
  2. third-person singular past indicative of skella

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to skjell and skål

Noun

skall n (definite singular skallet, indefinite plural skall, definite plural skalla or skallene)

  1. skin or peel (of certain fruits)
  2. shell (e.g. of shellfish, eggs, nuts)

Derived terms

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Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skal/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse skjalla (“clash, clatter”). Compare German Schall, Dutch schal, Old Norse skǫll.

Noun

skall n

  1. bark; sound made by a dog or a wolf
Declension
Declension of skall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative skall skallet skall skallen
Genitive skalls skallets skalls skallens
See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

Verb

skall

  1. (formal) present indicative of skola

References
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