schaal

schaal

1. water

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• Hyphenation: schaal
• Rhymes: -aːl

From Middle Dutch scale, from Old Dutch *skala, from Proto-Germanic *skalō. Cognate with German Schale (“shell”), English shale and scale (“piece of hard skin”). Compare also Dutch schil, English shell.

schaal f (plural schalen, diminutive schaaltje n)

1. shell (of an egg or a nut)

• eierschaal

Een fruitschaal.
A fruit bowl.

From Middle Dutch scale, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *skēlō, related to *skaljō (“husk, shell”). Cognate with German Schale (“bowl”).

schaal f (plural schalen, diminutive schaaltje n)

1. shallow bowl

• fruitschaal
• ovenschaal
• weegschaal

• Berbice Creole Dutch: skalki, skaliki
• Negerhollands: skel, skael
• → Papiamentu: skalchi (from the diminutive)

De schaal van een kaart staat meestal onder de legenda.
The scale of a map is found mostly under the legend.

Borrowed from German Skala and/or English scale, from Latin scāla. The earlier borrowing Middle Dutch scale (“ladder”) had become very rare or was even lost entirely in early modern Dutch, implying that it was later reintroduced in the contemporary sense.

schaal f (plural schalen, diminutive schaaltje n)

1. scale (e.g. for measuring)

• grootschalig
• schaalvergroting
• tijdschaal
• opschalen

schaal (strong nominative masculine singular schaaler, comparative schaaler, superlative am schaalsten)

1. Obsolete spelling of schal which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] ‎, section 606:

     Die mässigeren Empfindungen erscheinen dagegen schaal; man will, wie es scheint, die heftigere Unlust immer noch lieber als die matte Lust.

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