different between skilling vs spilling

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

• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

spilling (countable and uncountable, plural spillings)

1. The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
   • 2005, Margaret E. Owens, Stages of Dismemberment (page 58)

     Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.

2. (figuratively) The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.

Verb

spilling

1. present participle of spill

Anagrams

• Pillings, pillings

Icelandic

Etymology

From spilla (“to corrupt”) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?tli?k/
• Rhymes: -?tli?k

Noun

spilling f (genitive singular spillingar, no plural)

1. corruption

Declension

Middle English

Noun

spilling

1. Alternative form of spillyng