eggshell

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

coquille

🐚

coquille d’oeuf

coque

🐚

coquille d’œuf

coque d’œuf

coquille d'œuf

Synonymes

shell

🐚

crust

fruit skin

frail

hull

husk

husks

nutshell

skull

💀

egg-shell

cast-off skin

eggsheel

brittle

empty egg

egg shell

fragile

Traductions

Eierschale

cáscara de huevo

casca de ovo

yumurta kabuğu

cáscara

guscio d’uovo

guscio

🐚

eierschaal

nazik

Schale

casca do ovo

ince

τσόφλι

ausgeblasenes Ei

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɛɡʃɛl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: eggeshell

Appartenant à moyen anglais: eye schell

Hérité de ancien anglais: ǣġsċill

Appartenant à saterlandais: Oaierskil

Appartenant à néerlandais: eierschaal

Appartenant à allemand: Eierschale

Appartenant à danois: æggeskal

Appartenant à suédois: 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”).