skyrta

Icelandic

Etymology

According to Vladimir Orel from *skurti. Cognate to Old Norse skyrta, Middle Low German schorte (“shirt”). From the same source like Albanian shkurt (“short”) and shkurte (“shirt”); which was probably borrowed from a Germanic language, although unlikely.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈscɪr̥ta/

  Rhymes: -ɪr̥ta

Noun

skyrta f (genitive singular skyrtu, nominative plural skyrtur)

1. shirt

   Farðu í skyrtuna þína.

   Put your shirt on.

   Þetta er gömul skyrta, þú ættir að kaupa nýja.

   That's an old shirt, you should buy a new one.

   Ég á hvorki skyrtu né bindi, þannig að ég mætti bara í bol.

   I don't have a shirt or a tie, so I showed up just wearing a T-shirt.

Declension

declension of skyrta

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skyrta	skyrtan	skyrtur	skyrturnar
accusative	skyrtu	skyrtuna	skyrtur	skyrturnar
dative	skyrtu	skyrtunni	skyrtum	skyrtunum
genitive	skyrtu	skyrtunnar	skyrta/skyrtna	skyrtanna/skyrtnanna

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ.

Noun

skyrta f (genitive skyrtu)

1. shirt

Declension

  Declension of skyrta (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skyrta	skyrtan	skyrtur	skyrturnar
accusative	skyrtu	skyrtuna	skyrtur	skyrturnar
dative	skyrtu	skyrtunni	skyrtum	skyrtunum
genitive	skyrtu	skyrtunnar	skyrtna	skyrtnanna

Descendants

• Icelandic: skyrta
• Faroese: skjúrta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skyrta, skjorte (possibly from Swedish); (dialectal) skjørte, skjurte
• Old Swedish: skiurta, skiorta
  • Swedish: skjorta
• Danish: skjorte
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skjorte
• → Middle English: skyrte, skyrt, skirt, skirte, skyrtt, skyrthe, scyrt, scyrtte, skyrtte
  • English: skirt (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: skirt
  • → Welsh: sgert
• → Middle Irish: scirta
  • Irish: sciorta

References

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