schaats

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sxaːts/
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  • Hyphenation: schaats
  • Rhymes: -aːts

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch schāetse (“stilt”), from Old Northern French escache (“a stilt, trestle”), from Frankish *skakkjā (“stilt”, literally “thing that moves”), from the verb *skakan (“to shake”).

Noun

schaats f (plural schaatsen, diminutive schaatsje n)

  1. skate, ice skate
  2. (archaic) stilt
    Synonym: stelt
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: skaats
  • → English: skate
  • → Indonesian: sekat (“skate”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

schaats

  1. inflection of schaatsen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative
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