Schalke
Meaning
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- A quarter of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Short for FC Schalke 04 (football club).
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃalkə/
Etymology
From Middle Low German Schadeleke, Schedelike. Possibly related with the common placename element schêde, modern German Scheide (“border, divide”), though the a-vocalism is problematic.
New
Schalk
joker; rogue (male or of unspecified gender)
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Sentences
Heute spielt Schalke gegen Hannover Sechsundneunzig 96 und zwar in Gelsenkirchen .
96
Today, Schalke plays ninety-six against Hannover in Gelsenkirchen.