Definitions For Skerry

Noun

{{en-noun, skerries}} A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.

Translations

Catalan: illot rocós, m Dutch: scheer, m, f Esperanto: ŝero {{qualifier, literary, rare}} Faroese: sker, n, fles, f Finnish: kari, luoto Galician: illote, m Georgian: შხერი German: Schäre, f Greek: βραχονησίδα, f, sc=Grek Icelandic: sker, n Irish: sceir, f Latvian: šēra, f Manx: sker, f Norwegian: : Bokmål: skjær, n : Nynorsk: skjer, n Polish: szkier, m, szer, m Russian: шхе́ра, f Scottish Gaelic: sgeir, f Swedish: skär, n Welsh: sgeri, m, f

Etymology

From dialectal {{bor, en, sco, -}} (w:shetlandic, shetlandic and w:orcadian dialect, orcadian) skerry, from {{der, en, non, sker}} (whence {{cog, da, skær}} and {{cog, nb, skjær}}).