Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A shell, scale or husk; a cod or pod. · A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. · The shale oil and shale gas segment of the oil and gas industry.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo take off the shell or coat of.
From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”). See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionschaleenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċealuang
- Inherited-form mention*skalugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skalōgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*(s)kelH-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionskaalfy
- Cognate mentionschaalnl
- Cognate mentionSchalede
- Cognate mentionskalàlt
- Cognate mentionскалаcu
- Cognate mentionskałapl
- Cognate mentionhalësq
- Cognate mentionकलsa
- Cognate mentionskéltilt
- Cognate mentionσκάλλωgrc
- Doublet mentionscaleen
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