ski
pronunciation
How to pronounce ski in British English:
UK [skiː]
How to pronounce ski in American English:
US [skiː]
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- Noun:
- narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used for gliding over snow
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- Verb:
- move along on skis
Word Origin
- ski
- ski: [19] A ski is etymologically a piece of wood ‘split’ from a tree trunk. The word was borrowed from Norwegian ski, a descendant of Old Norse skíth ‘piece of split wood, ski’. This in turn came from the prehistoric Germanic base *skīth-, *skaith- ‘divide, split’, source also of English sheath, shed, etc. The Norwegian word is pronounced /she/, and that is the way in which it was once often said (and indeed sometimes spelled) in English. (Old Norse skíth may also lie behind English skid [17], which originally meant ‘block of wood used as a support’, hence ‘wooden chock for stopping a wheel’.The modern sense only emerged in the 19th century, from the notion of a wheel slipping when it is prevented from revolving.)=> sheath, shed, skid
- ski (n.)
- 1883 (there is an isolated instance from 1755; in early use often spelled skee), from Norwegian ski, related to Old Norse skið "long snowshoe," literally "stick of wood, firewood," cognate with Old English scid "stick of wood," obsolete English shide "piece of wood split off from timber;" Old High German skit, German Scheit "log," from Proto-Germanic *skid- "to divide, split," from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split" (see shed (v.)). Ski-jumper is from 1894; ski bum first attested 1960; ski-mask is from 1963; noted as part of criminal disguises from 1968.
- ski (v.)
- 1885, from ski (n.). Related: Skied; skiing.
Example
- 1. The largest indoor ski venue is under construction at tianjin .
- 2. I ski four days a year .
- 3. The dallas ski area will not use conventional snowmaking machines .
- 4. I like winter because I like to ski and skate .
- 5. And north america will have the indoor ski and sports complex .