Etymology

skerping

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Today it means: In the Faroese language, the phenomenon where back vowels are fronted before [kv], and certain diphthongs are monophthongized before [tʃː]. Full definition →

Faroese skerping
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The story

  1. Faroese · derived fromskerping“sharpening”
  2. English todayskerping

From Faroese skerping (“sharpening”).

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