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schuld

Pronunciation: /sxʏlt/

“schuld” is a Dutch word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. debt, account payable
  2. any obligor’s duty to perform
  3. blame, fault (responsibility for a mishap or mistake)
  4. guilt, culpability
  5. guilt; fault (condition of moral deficiency)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch schult, also schout, from Old Dutch scult, from Proto-West Germanic *skuldi, from Proto-Germanic *skuldiz.

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