skífa

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyp- (“to cut, part, divide, separate”), from *skey-.[1]

Noun

skífa f

  1. a slice
  2. a thin surface

Descendants
  • Danish: skive
  • Faroese: skiva
  • Icelandic: skífa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: skive
  • Swedish: skiva

References
  • skífa at Copenhagen University's Old Norse Dictionary.
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 2739, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2739
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