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skotsk

Pronunciation: /skɔtsk/

“skotsk” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Scottish, Scots; of, from, or relating to Scotland or its inhabitants
  2. produced or originating in Scotland

noun

  1. Scottish Gaelic; a Goidelic Celtic language spoken chiefly in Scotland
  2. Scots; a Germanic language closely related to English, spoken chiefly in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland
  3. an old Scottish round dance in triple time
  4. a lively contra dance in duple time, resembling a reinlender
  5. the music accompanying such a dance

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse skozkr (“Scottish”), from the ethnonym skotr (“Scot”) with the adjectival suffix -skr (“of or relating to; from”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk skotsk, Danish skotsk, Swedish skotsk, Icelandic skoskur and Faroese skotskur (“Scottish”).

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