shale

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
2. (countable, uncountable) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Verb

To take off the shell or coat of.

Sinonieme

slate

schist

moot

pin

shiver

spool

torbanite

schistous clay

silt rock

argillaceous rock

clay stone

clay slate

cleaving stone

shale rock

mesh gauge

claystone

mesh bar

cowl

Vertalings

schiste

Schiefer

esquisto

Schieferton

scisto

xisto

schisto

şistli

pizarra

esquist

Schiefergestein

décoquiller

écoquiller

sasso

🪨

schiste argileux

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʃeɪl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: schale

Geërf van Old English: sċealu

Verwante met Fries: skaal

Verwante met Nederlands: schaal

Verwante met Duits: Schale

Verwante met Litaus: skalà

Verwante met Kerkslawies: скала

Verwante met Pools: skała

Verwante met Albanees: halë

Verwante met Sanskrit: कल

Verwante met Litaus: skélti

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: σκάλλω

In summary

From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-West Germanic *skalu, from Proto-Germanic *skalō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”), from *(s)kel- (“to split, cleave”).
See also West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”); also Lithuanian skalà (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल (kalá, “small part”); also Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω (skállō, “to hoe, harrow”). Doublet of scale. See also shell.