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

Declension of sker
n22	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sker	skerið	sker	skerini
accusative	sker	skerið	sker	skerini
dative	skeri	skerinum	skerjum, skerum	skerjunum, skerunum
genitive	skers	skersins	skerja	skerjanna

sker

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

Conjugation of skera (group v-54)
infinitive	skera
supine	skorið
participle (a26)1	skerandi	skorin
	present	past
first singular	skeri	skar
second singular	skert	skart
third singular	sker	skar
plural	skera	skóru
	imperative
singular	sker!
plural	skerið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

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