Noun: skyr
Gender: n
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | skyr |
| Sg. Def. | skyrið |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | skyrs |
| Sg. Def. | skyrsins |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | skyri |
| Sg. Def. | skyrinu |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | skyr |
| Sg. Def. | skyrið |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like skyr
sement,
koldíoxíð,
samkyn,
smjatt,
koltvíoxíð,
sirkon,
sinnep,
skrafl,
skautaat,
gervigras,
grjótkast,
flatarmál,
yttrín,
sjónflug,
ylvatn,
öryggisráð,
einsteinín,
utanumhald,
samferðafólk,
veggjakrot, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Norse skyr (“thick curdled milk”, literally “separated”), from skera (“to divide”).
2. Related to the terms Danish skør (dialect), skørost (dialect), Norwegian Nynorsk skyr (“buttermilk, cultured milk”) or skjør, and Swedish skyr. The Latin term lac concretum (“thick milk”) is found in Tacitus' Germania. Possibly borrowed into English as English scurvy. See: Old Norse Nouns '
skyr', Danish Nouns '
skør', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
skyr', English Nouns '
scurvy'.
Verbs referencing "skyr"
Danish Nouns
skyr, Dutch Nouns
skyr, Danish Nouns
skør, German Nouns
Skyr.
Translations