skelet
English
Etymology
Noun
skelet (plural skelets)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “skelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology
From Dutch skelet, from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).
Noun
skelet (plural skelette, diminutive skeletjie)
Albanian
Pronunciation
Noun
skelet m (plural skeletë, definite skeleti, definite plural skeletët)
Declension
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).
Pronunciation
Noun
skelet n (plural skeletten, diminutive skeletje n)
- skeleton (support structure of an organism; ensemble of animal bones)
- Synonym: geraamte
- (figurative) frame, skeleton (supporting frame of an inanimate or non-animal object or entity)
Derived terms
- bouwskelet
- dierenskelet
- endoskelet
- exoskelet
- kraakbeenskelet
- skeletaal
- skeletbouw
- skeletnaald
- skeletspier
Descendants
- Afrikaans: skelet
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Serbo-Croatian
Noun
skèlet m (Cyrillic spelling скѐлет)
Declension
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- Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans terms derived from German
- Afrikaans terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɛt
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
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- nl:Body parts
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Anatomy