skede

From Old Norse skeiðir (“sheath”), plural of skeið (“reed, sley”), from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz. The old singular is continued by the Danish noun ske (“spoon”).

Cognate with German Scheide, Dutch schede, and English sheath. The anatomical sense is a semantic loan from Latin vāgīna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɡ̊eːðə]

skede c (singular definite skeden, plural indefinite skeder)

1. sheath (scabbard, long case)
2. (somewhat clinical) vagina

   Synonyms: vagina, (vulgar) fisse, (vulgar) fjams, kusse, (childish) tissekone

• skede on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Skede (kønsorgan) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Skede (hylster) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• “skede” in Den Danske Ordbog

Clipping of skeittilauta (“skateboard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈskede/, [ˈs̠k̟e̞de̞]
• Rhymes: -ede
• Syllabification^(key): ske‧de
• Hyphenation^(key): ske‧de

skede (colloquial)

1. skateboard

• skedettää (verb)
• skedetys (noun)

From Old Norse skeið (“race; race course; piece of way; space of time”), from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną (“to separate”).

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skede n

1. a stage, a phase (delimited part of something that happens)

   Synonym: stadium

   i ett tidigt skede

   at an early stage

   ett kritiskt skede

   a critical stage

• slutskede

• ske
• skeende

• “skede”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “skede”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “skede”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)