different between sculd vs scald

English

Etymology 1

From back-formation of sculding. Related to Norwegian skulding (“accusation”).

Alternative forms

• scould, skuld, skuild

Verb

sculd (third-person singular simple present sculds, present participle sculding, simple past and past participle sculded)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To accuse (someone) of wrongdoing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.

Related terms

• sculding

Etymology 2

Related to Old Norse skilja (“to divide”).

Noun

sculd (plural sculds)

1. (rare, Britain dialectal) A parting.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skuldi.

Noun

sculd f

1. debt

Descendants

• Middle High German: schult, schulde
  • German: Schuld
    • ? Esperanto: ?uldo
  • Luxembourgish: Schold
  • Yiddish: ????? (shuld)

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /sk?ld/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, /sk?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (Old French eschalder, French échauder), from Late Latin excaldare (“bathe in hot water”), from Latin ex- (“off, out”) + calidus (“hot”)

Verb

scald (third-person singular simple present scalds, present participle scalding, simple past and past participle scalded)

1. To burn with hot liquid.

   to scald the hand

   • 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:

     Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.

   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

     Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.

2. (cooking) To heat almost to boiling.

   Scald the milk until little bubbles form.

Translations

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of scall or scalled.

Noun

scald (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald […].

Adjective

scald (comparative more scald, superlative most scald)

1. (obsolete) Affected with the scab; scabby.
2. (obsolete) Paltry; worthless.

Synonyms

• (scabby): roynish, scurvy; see also Thesaurus:scabby
• (paltry): contemptible, miserable, trashy; see also Thesaurus:despicable

Etymology 3

Noun

scald (plural scalds)

1. Alternative form of skald
   • ?, Walter Scott, Saxon War Song

References

Anagrams

• DACLs, S.D. Cal., clads

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skald]

Verb

scald

1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?lda
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?lda