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Half of those words make no sense in modern Norwegian. A run through of the list and their approximate pronunciations in English would be: Skin: shin never hea

Half of those words make no sense in modern Norwegian. A run through of the list and their approximate pronunciations in English would be: Skin: shin never heard this said, GooTranslate gives "full" but "full" is "hel" in Norwegian sky: she meaning sky (the vast expanse above your head) ski: shee meaning ski like a plank of wood strapped to you foot for travelling on snow. skill: sheeel to divide or separate. Bears no relation to English that I know of. skid: sheed not a word I know in Norwgian skull: shool again, not a word I know in Norwegian, the word for skull is 'hode' skip: ship a thing that floats and is bigger than a boat. skirt: sheert not a word, but probably from skjørt meaning the same.

admax88q 10y ago
> sky: she > ski: shee > skill: sheeel For a moment there I hoped you were just going to keep adding e's to as you went down the list.
- kagamine 10y ago
  It's quite hard for me to get across the slightly differing sounds as it'snot my native tongue. That is why I used "approximation" in my comment, but yes it does seem like an ever lengthening ee sound. The rule is that if the vowel is followed by a double consonant it's a short vowel, single consonant means long vowel, so bil = beel and bill = beeel. But as a non-native it can be very hard to distinguish during a conversation and I am often misunderstood. In fact, I'm not even sure I have the rule the right way around :(
tallanvor 10y ago
Well, couldn't you use skalle for skull? Or hodeskalle? I'm not a native speaker, but my understanding is that hode is more general than the skull.
- kagamine 10y ago
  Ha, yesterday I even saw a sign over a low door upon which was written "skall skall ikke". So yes, you are correct with skalle. I have a terrible memory.
nso 10y ago
Skin: "Dyreskinn".... Skull: The word for skull is most definitly not "hode". It's "skalle", which is very similar. Furthermore, not all dialects have the "sh" sound for sk.
- kagamine 10y ago
  That's a double-l. The word for head is most definitely hode. Which is what I thought of.
Symbiote 10y ago
> Skin: shin never heard this said, GooTranslate gives "full" but "full" is "hel" in Norwegian skinn in Norwegian, or skind in Danish. > skill Seems obsolete, I've only vaguely aware of this usage, and I'm a native speaker: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skill#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skill#Etymology_1 > skull There's a skalli in Danish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skalle https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skalle
- kagamine 10y ago
  skill is not obsolete and is heard in everyday speaking as in "å skille ut".
  - Symbiote 10y ago
    I meant it was obsolete in English.
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vorg 10y ago
Surely English sk-word "skoal" is used in Norwegian.

admax88q 10y ago

> sky: she > ski: shee > skill: sheeel For a moment there I hoped you were just going to keep adding e's to as you went down the list.

kagamine 10y ago
It's quite hard for me to get across the slightly differing sounds as it'snot my native tongue. That is why I used "approximation" in my comment, but yes it does seem like an ever lengthening ee sound. The rule is that if the vowel is followed by a double consonant it's a short vowel, single consonant means long vowel, so bil = beel and bill = beeel. But as a non-native it can be very hard to distinguish during a conversation and I am often misunderstood. In fact, I'm not even sure I have the rule the right way around :(

tallanvor 10y ago

Well, couldn't you use skalle for skull? Or hodeskalle? I'm not a native speaker, but my understanding is that hode is more general than the skull.

kagamine 10y ago
Ha, yesterday I even saw a sign over a low door upon which was written "skall skall ikke". So yes, you are correct with skalle. I have a terrible memory.

nso 10y ago

Skin: "Dyreskinn".... Skull: The word for skull is most definitly not "hode". It's "skalle", which is very similar. Furthermore, not all dialects have the "sh" sound for sk.

kagamine 10y ago
That's a double-l. The word for head is most definitely hode. Which is what I thought of.

Symbiote 10y ago

> Skin: shin never heard this said, GooTranslate gives "full" but "full" is "hel" in Norwegian skinn in Norwegian, or skind in Danish. > skill Seems obsolete, I've only vaguely aware of this usage, and I'm a native speaker: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skill#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skill#Etymology_1 > skull There's a skalli in Danish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skalle https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skalle

kagamine 10y ago
skill is not obsolete and is heard in everyday speaking as in "å skille ut".
- Symbiote 10y ago
  I meant it was obsolete in English.

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vorg 10y ago

Surely English sk-word "skoal" is used in Norwegian.