eggshell

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The shell around an egg.
2. (countable, uncountable) A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell of many chickens.

Adj

1. Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
2. Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.
3. Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.

Conceptes

closca

conquilla

ou

🥚

petxina

closca d’ou

Sinònims

shell

🐚

crust

fruit skin

frail

hull

husk

husks

nutshell

skull

💀

egg-shell

cast-off skin

eggsheel

brittle

empty egg

egg shell

fragile

Traduccions

Eierschale

coquille

🐚

coquille d’oeuf

coque

🐚

casca de ovo

cáscara de huevo

cáscara

yumurta kabuğu

eierschaal

guscio

🐚

guscio d’uovo

casca do ovo

τσόφλι

Schale

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɛɡʃɛl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: eggeshell

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: eye schell

Heretat de anglès antic: ǣġsċill

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: Oaierskil

Cognat amb neerlandès: eierschaal

Cognat amb alemany: Eierschale

Cognat amb danès: æggeskal

Cognat amb suec: äggskal

In summary

From Middle English eggeshell, ege schelle, egg-shel, egg shelle (also as Middle English eye schell, ey-schel, ey-schelle), partially continuing Old English ǣġsċill, ǣġsċyll (“eggshell”), equivalent to egg + shell. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oaierskil (“eggshell”), Dutch eierschaal (“eggshell”), German Eierschale (“eggshell”), Danish æggeskal (“eggshell”), Swedish äggskal (“eggshell”).