skir

From Old Norse skírr.

skir

1. Alternative form of skyr

From Old Norse skíra.

skir

1. Alternative form of skyren

Common Germanic word.

skir (comparative skirare, superlative skirast)

1. sheer (thin and delicate (and often more or less transparent), like gauze or gossamer)
   1. wispy (of a cloud)
2. (figuratively) delicate, ethereal, etc.
3. (higher register, especially of (light from) a celestial body) clear, shining

skir n

1. sheer (sheer fabric)
2. (higher register) something sheer, veil-like substance (more generally, for example haze or wispy clouds)

• flor

• skir in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skir in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skir in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

A verbal form derived from skee. Cognate with English sky (“to throw a ball extremely high”).

• IPA^(key): /skiː/

skir

1. To rise in the air.
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Th' commanès t'rapple; th' ball skir an vlee;

     The ball-clubs they rattled; the ball rose and flew;

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68