Noun: skum
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | skum |
| Sg. definite | skummet |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | skums |
| Sg. definite | skummets |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like skum
technetium,
copernicium,
bohrium,
wolfram,
samarium,
iridium,
berkelium,
gallium,
unniltrium,
samkvem,
ammonium,
meitnerium,
ununbium,
niobium,
germanium,
europium,
darmstadtium,
verdensrum,
røntgenium,
natrium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Either from an unattested Old Norse *skúm or borrowed from Middle Low German schūm, from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz m (“foam”), cognate with German Schaum, Dutch schuim, English scum. See: German Nouns '
Schaum', Dutch Nouns '
schuim', English Nouns '
scum'.
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