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skoal

  [skohl]
Use skoal in a Sentence
–interjection
1. (used as a toast in drinking someone's health.)
–noun
2. a toast.
–verb (used without object)
3. to drink a toast.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Dan skaal, Norw, Sw skål; cf. ON skāl bowl
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skoal   (skōl)   
interj.  Used as a drinking toast.

[Danish and Norwegian skaal, cup, skoal, from Old Norse skāl, bowl, drinking vessel; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

skoal 
Scand. toasting word, 1600, from Dan. skaal "a toast," lit. "bowl, cup," from O.N., originally a cup made from a shell, from P.Gmc. *skelo, from PIE *(s)kel- "to cut" (see shell). The word first appears in Scottish Eng., and may have been connected to the visit of James VI of Scotland to Denmark in 1589.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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