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scald¹

  • /skɔld/ US
  • /skɑld/ US, cot caught merger
  • /skɔːld/ UK
  • /skɒld/ UK
  • /skɔld/ Scotland

Sounds like skald · Rhymes with -ɔːld

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱleh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₁éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *kalēō

Latin caleō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin calidus

Latin caldus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin excaldō

Old Northern French escalderbor.

Middle English scalden

English scald

From Middle English scalden, assumed to stem from Old Northern French escalder (compare central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from ex- (“off, out”) + cal(i)dus (“hot”).

Cognate with Old Swedish skalda, skolda, skolla, skala, Swedish skålla, Danish skolde, Norwegian skålda, skaalda, Icelandic skálda.

Also compare Old Norse skálda (“to rot, fall off, of hair”), to skalli (“baldness”), borrowed as Middle English scalle (“hair loss infection, rash, blistering”), English scall.

verb scalds · scalding · scalded

  1. To burn with hot liquid. to scald the hand
  2. To heat almost to boiling. Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

noun scalds

  1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
  2. A paste, made by mixing flour with hot or boiling water (causing starches in it to gelatinize and hold more water) and allowing that mixture to sit and cool, which is added to bread dough to produce a softer bread that takes longer to stale. […] stir in the flour by hand, and afterwards add the boiling water, and stir vigorously as already described for Virgin barm. The scald should not be so stiff as for Virgin, and should taste sweet when newly made.
  3. Appalachia Poor or bad land.

scald²

  • /skɔld/ US
  • /skɑld/ US, cot caught merger
  • /skɔːld/ UK
  • /skɒld/ UK
  • /skɔld/ Scotland

Sounds like skald · Rhymes with -ɔːld

Where it comes from

Alteration of scall or scalled. Compare cognate Old Swedish skold, skoldh, skol, Swedish skål, skoll, skolla, Danish skold, skolde, Norwegian skåld (“rash”).

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Scaliness; a scabby skin disease. Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald[…].

adjective more scald · most scald

  1. obsolete Affected with the scab; scabby. and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,
  2. obsolete Paltry; worthless. Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d? And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away? And which is worſe to haue his Diadem Sought for by ſuch ſcalde knaues as loue him not?

Similar: scurvy, miserable, trashy

scald³

  • /skɔld/ US
  • /skɑld/ US, cot caught merger
  • /skɔːld/ UK
  • /skɒld/ UK
  • /skɔld/ Scotland

Sounds like skald · Rhymes with -ɔːld

noun scalds

  1. alternative Alternative form of skald.skald The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.

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