Noun: sheath
| Singular | sheath |
| Plural | sheaths |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sheath
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
2. The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede. See: Danish Nouns '
skede', Dutch Nouns '
schede', Icelandic Nouns '
skeið', German Nouns '
Scheide'.
Verbs referencing "sheath"
Old Norse Nouns
skeið, Dutch Nouns
schede, German Nouns
Scheide, Danish Nouns
ske, Danish Nouns
skede, Old Norse Nouns
skæið.