skör

See also: skor, skór, skør, and S. Kor.

Icelandic

From or related to Old Norse sker (“rock in the sea”). See also Swedish skär (“edge, skerry”), Danish skær, English shore.^[1]

skör f (genitive singular skarar, nominative plural skarir)

^ “skör”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎^[1] (in Swedish), 1937

From Old Swedish skør, skyr, from Low German schör (“weak, fragile”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *skuriz, derived from the verb *skeraną (“to cut”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk skjør.

skör (comparative skörare, superlative skörast)

brittle, fragile
sköra ben
brittle bones
frail
sköra äldre
frail elderly people
(obsolete) sexually immoral (from notion of easily giving in to temptation), lecherous, wanton, unchaste

Inflection of skör
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	skör	skörare	skörast
Neuter singular	skört	skörare	skörast
Plural	sköra	skörare	skörast
Masculine plural³	sköre	skörare	skörast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	sköre	skörare	sköraste
All	sköra	skörare	sköraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic