schra

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skrɑ/

Etymology

Compare Old Norse skrá (“parchment”).[1]

Noun

schrā

  1. skra (kind of medieval legal document in northern Germany and around the Baltic Sea)[2]

Descendants

  • → German: Schra
  • → Russian: скра (skra)

References

  1. ^
    1978, George Thomas, “A Note on Middle Low German”, in Middle Low German Loanwords in Russian‎[1] (in English), page 12:
    Scandinavian words which have become widespread in MLG include schra, […]
  2. ^
    1978, George Thomas, “Items of Trade”, in Middle Low German Loanwords in Russian‎[2] (in English), page 37:
    The making of trousers at the factory was explicitly prohibited, but this prohibition was not always heeded. From 1466 permission was granted in the schra for one tailor at the factory.

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