Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible. · These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head. · The mind or brain. · A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object. · To strike the top of (the ball). · To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”), to Proto-Norse *ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟ (*skalo), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish kallo. Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle. Related to Old Norse skoltr (“brow”), skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Norwegian Nynorsk skult, skolt (“cranium, head (of a hammer); crag; hub”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”), and Scots skult, skolt. Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”). Possibly related to Latin celsus (“lofty, high, tall”), collis (“hill”). Also related to Old Norse skǫllóttr, Icelandic sköllóttur, Old Swedish skallotter, Swedish skallig, Danish skaldet, Norwegian skallet (“bald”).
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- Root classification mention*(s)kelH-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsculleenm
- Derivation mentionskallinon
- Cognate mentionsċealuang
- Derivation mention*ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟgmq-pro
- Derivation mention*skallôgem-pro
- Cognate mentionkallofi
- Cognate mentionscullsco
- Cognate mentionskalda
- Cognate mentionskalleno
- Cognate mentionskallesv
- Cognate mentionskoltrnon · brow
- Cognate mentionskolturis · jaw
- Cognate mentionskultsv
- Cognate mentionskultnn
- Cognate mentionscolledum
- Cognate mentionschollegml
- Cognate mentionskultsco
- Cognate mentioncelsusla · lofty, high, tall
- Cognate mentionskǫllóttrnon
- Cognate mentionsköllótturis
- Cognate mentionskallottergmq-osw
- Cognate mentionskalligsv
- Cognate mentionskaldetda
- Cognate mentionskalletno · bald
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