different between skilling vs skirling

English

Etymology 1

From skill (verb).

Verb

skilling

1. present participle of skill

Etymology 2

From Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skilling. Doublet of shilling.

Noun

skilling (plural skillings)

1. (historical) A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century. (A subdivision of the Swedish riksdaler, the Danish and Norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler).

Etymology 3

Compare sheeling.

Noun

skilling (plural skillings)

1. A bay of a barn.
2. A small addition to a cottage.

Anagrams

• killings

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse skillingr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skelen?/, [?s??el?e?]

Noun

skilling c (singular definite skillingen, plural indefinite skillinger)

1. skilling (A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century.)
2. small donation

Inflection

Synonyms

(small donation): skærv

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Akin to English shilling. Doublet of schilling and shilling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l???/

Noun

skilling m (definite singular skillingen, indefinite plural skillingar, definite plural skillingane)

1. (numismatics) shilling (A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century.)
2. a coin (any coin)
   • 1856, Ivar Aasen, Norske Ordsprog:

     Ein Skilling, som er spard, er tvo Gonger tent.

     A shilling that is saved, is twice earned.

Further reading

• “skilling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish skillinger, from Old Norse skillingr, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, the same source of English shilling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l???/

Noun

skilling c

1. skilling (coin)

Declension

References

• skilling in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skilling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skilling in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• killings

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?l??/

Verb

skirling

1. present participle of skirl

Noun

skirling (plural skirlings)

1. (Britain, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
2. (Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
   • 1885, Juliana Horatia Ewing, The Story of a Short Life

     When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

References

• skirling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "skirling" in On-line Medical Dictionary, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997–2005.