scree

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• Received-Pronunciation: /skɹiː/
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• General-American: /skɹi/
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• rhymes with -iː
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Probably a back-formation from screes, from Old Norse skriða (“landslide, landslip”); compare skríða (“to glide”) (from Proto-Germanic *skrīþaną (“to crawl; to glide; to walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreyt-, *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)). The word is cognate with Icelandic skriða (“avalanche; landslide, landslip; steep mountain- or hillside made up of gravel and loose rocks”).

Onomatopoeic. However, some connection to a lost dialect term (Old Norse influence? cf. shriek, screech) from Old English sċrēon is not impossible.

Apparently from screen.

A variant of screed.

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: tseziił — loose stony debris on a slope
• Albanian: lëmaqe — loose stony debris on a slope
• Aragonese: tartera — loose stony debris on a slope
• Azerbaijani: ovuntu konusu — loose stony debris on a slope
• Belarusian: асы́пак (asýpak) — loose stony debris on a slope
• Bulgarian: сипей (sipej) — loose stony debris on a slope
• Catalan: tartera — loose stony debris on a slope
• Catalan: claper — loose stony debris on a slope
• Chinese Mandarin: 岩屑堆 — loose stony debris on a slope
• Czech: osyp — loose stony debris on a slope
• Danish: ur — loose stony debris on a slope
• Dutch: puinhelling — loose stony debris on a slope
• Dutch: puin — loose stony debris on a slope
• Finnish: louhikko — loose stony debris on a slope
• French: éboulis — loose stony debris on a slope
• French: pierrier — loose stony debris on a slope
• French: clapier — loose stony debris on a slope
• German: Schutt — loose stony debris on a slope
• German: Geröll — loose stony debris on a slope
• German: Gand — loose stony debris on a slope
• Icelandic: skriða — loose stony debris on a slope
• Ido: taluso — loose stony debris on a slope
• Irish: scileach — loose stony debris on a slope
• Irish: sceallach — loose stony debris on a slope
• Italian: ghiaione — loose stony debris on a slope
• Malayalam: ടാലസ് (ṭālasŭ) — loose stony debris on a slope
• Norwegian Bokmål: ur — loose stony debris on a slope
• Norwegian Bokmål: talus — loose stony debris on a slope
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ur — loose stony debris on a slope
• Norwegian Nynorsk: steinrøys — loose stony debris on a slope
• Occitan: clapàs — loose stony debris on a slope
• Polish: piarg — loose stony debris on a slope
• Romanian: grohotiș — loose stony debris on a slope
• Russian: о́сыпь (ósypʹ) — loose stony debris on a slope
• Slovene: melišče — loose stony debris on a slope
• Spanish: canchal — loose stony debris on a slope
• Swedish: taluskon — loose stony debris on a slope
• Turkish: çarşak — loose stony debris on a slope
• Ukrainian: о́сип (ósyp) — loose stony debris on a slope
• Welsh: sgri — loose stony debris on a slope
• Welsh: marian — loose stony debris on a slope
• Dutch: puin — broken building material
• German: Schutt — broken building material
• German: Talus — slope
• German: Schutthalde — slope
• German: Geröllhalde — slope
• Irish: screathan — slope
• Spanish: pedregal — slope
• German: abfahren — traverse scree downhill