sheathe

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• Received-Pronunciation: shēth
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʃiːð/
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• General-American: /ʃið/
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• rhymes with -iːð
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• CMU ARPABET: SH IY1 DH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English shethen (“to put (a sword or knife) into a sheath, sheathe; to provide with a sheath; (figuratively) to have sexual intercourse”) [and other forms], then: * probably from Old English *scēaþian; or * possibly from Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms] + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Sheth(e) is derived 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).

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: прибирам в ножница (pribiram v nožnica) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Catalan: embeinar — to put (something) into a sheath
• Danish: stikke i skede — to put (something) into a sheath
• Dutch: in de schede steken — to put (something) into a sheath
• Dutch: terugtrekken — to put (something) into a sheath
• Esperanto: ingi — to put (something) into a sheath
• Finnish: panna tuppeen — to put (something) into a sheath
• French: engainer — to put (something) into a sheath
• French: rengainer — to put (something) into a sheath
• Galician: envaiñar — to put (something) into a sheath
• German: in die Scheide stecken — to put (something) into a sheath
• German: ummanteln — to put (something) into a sheath
• Icelandic: slíðra — to put (something) into a sheath
• Icelandic: setja í slíður — to put (something) into a sheath
• Ido: engainigar — to put (something) into a sheath
• Italian: inguainare — to put (something) into a sheath
• Italian: rinfoderare — to put (something) into a sheath
• Japanese: 鞘に入れる (saya ni ireru) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Japanese: 鞘に収める (saya ni osameru) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Norwegian: stikke i sliren — to put (something) into a sheath
• Portuguese: abainhar — to put (something) into a sheath
• Portuguese: embainhar — to put (something) into a sheath
• Russian: класть в футляр (klastʹ v futljar) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Russian: пря́тать в но́жны (prjátatʹ v nóžny) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Russian: вкла́дывать в но́жны (vkládyvatʹ v nóžny) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Spanish: envainar — to put (something) into a sheath
• Swedish: sticka i slidan — to put (something) into a sheath
• Ottoman Turkish: قینلامق (kınlamak) — to put (something) into a sheath
• Bulgarian: обвивам (obvivam) — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Bulgarian: обшивам (obšivam) — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Finnish: peittää — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Finnish: kätkeä — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• French: engainer — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Russian: обши́ть (obšítʹ) — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Russian: обшива́ть (obšivátʹ) — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Ottoman Turkish: قینلامق (kınlamak) — to encase (something) with a protective covering
• Finnish: vetää sisään — of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body