skall

skall (third-person singular simple present skalls, present participle skalling, simple past and past participle skalled)

1. (obsolete) To scale; to mount

• “skall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

skall (strong)

1. first-person singular past indicative of skella
2. third-person singular past indicative of skella

Related to skjell and skål

skall n (definite singular skallet, indefinite plural skall, definite plural skalla or skallene)

1. skin or peel (of certain fruits)
2. shell (e.g. of shellfish, eggs, nuts)

• bananskall

• skal (Nynorsk)

• “skall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /skal/

From Old Norse skjalla (“clash, clatter”). Compare German Schall, Dutch schal, Old Norse skǫll.

skall n

1. a bark (sound made by a dog or a wolf)

• skälla
• skallgång

• voff

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• ska, ſkall

skall

1. (formal) present indicative of skola, shall

   Du skall inte passera!

   You shall not pass!

Matches English shall in tone and is used in similar contexts, for example in legal documents or for dramatic or poetic effect. A good way to think about the more common alternative form ska is also as a "de-dramatized" shall, usually being otherwise identical in meaning to shall. Translating ska is often a matter of rephrasing an English sentence with shall for a more everyday tone: "Jag ska sjunga i kören imorgon" → "I shall sing in the choir tomorrow" (match for meaning) → "I will / I'm going to / I'm (if the rest is casual) gonna sing in the choir tomorrow" (match for tone).

See the usage notes for bli and man for two other examples of words that have a direct translation that is often unidiomatic or a poor match for tone.

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2676”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2676
• skall in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• skall in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)