Scheldt
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *skala-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out, wither”).[1]
Modern English shoal, Low German schol, Frisian skol, and Swedish (obsolete) skäll, "thin".
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Scheldt
- A river flowing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 408:
- Perhaps as a child she watched for his ship coming up the Scheldt.
Translations[edit]
river
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References[edit]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 927, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 927
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