skyffel

Borrowed from Middle Low German schüffel, schüffele, schuffele, schūfele, schūfle.

skyffel c

1. a shovel (for moving material (with a more concave profile and often upturned edges) – compare spade)

• sopskyffel (“dustpan”)
• snöskyffel (“snow shovel”)

• skyffla (“to shovel”)

• spade (“shovel (for digging)”)
• skopa (“scoop, bucket”)
• skovel (“large, wide, curved shovel”)

• “skyffel”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “skyffel”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• skyffel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)