# ski
## English
### Etymology

From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (Modern English shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: skē, (UK, rare) shē
* IPA: /skiː/, (UK, rare) /ʃiː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː
* Hyphenation: ski

### Noun

ski (plural skis)
* One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
** 1990, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology.
** 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188:We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.
** 2022 February 5, Adam Kilgore, Christian Shepherd, “A cauldron-lighting flashpoint one night, Dinigeer Yilamujiang was a skier the next day”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-05, Olympics‎:Yilamujiang grew up in Altay, a prefecture bordering Mongolia in far northwest Xinjiang. Chinese officials consider the region the cradle of Alpine sport, after cave paintings of hunters on skis were dated at 10,000 years old. Locals still use hand-carved wooden skis covered in a horsehide, although mostly now for the benefit of tourists.
* (aviation) One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
* A trip made by skiing.
    to go for a ski

#### Derived terms

* cross-country ski
* downhill-ski
* heli-ski
* jet ski
* jet-ski
* mono-ski
* over one's skis
* sit-ski
* ski ballet
* ski bazaar
* ski boat
* ski boot
* ski bum
* ski bunny
* ski cap
* ski cross
* skier
* ski hat
* skiing
* ski jump
* ski-jump
* ski jumper
* ski jumping
* ski jump nose
* ski-jump nose
* ski lift
* ski lodge
* ski mask
* ski nose
* ski-nose
* ski orienteering
* ski patrol
* ski patroller
* ski pole
* ski-ramp nose
* ski ramp nose
* ski-resort
* ski resort
* ski run
* ski school
* ski skating
* ski skin
* ski slope
* ski-slope nose
* ski slope nose
* ski stick
* ski-through
* ski-thru
* ski tow
* ski track
* ski wax
* ski whiff
* surf ski
* turf ski
* water ski
* wave ski

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
* → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
* → Okinawan: スキー
* → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)

#### Translations
### Verb

ski (third-person singular simple present skis or skies, present participle skiing, simple past and past participle skied)
* (intransitive) To move on skis.
** 2014, Patrick Armstrong, The Log of a Snow Survey, →ISBN:Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.
** 2014, Inspiring Generations: 150 Years, 150 Stories in Yosemite, →ISBN, page 188:We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.
* (transitive) To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).
    We spent the winter holidays skiing the Alps

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* KSI

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ski/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ski
* Rhymes: -i

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

#### Noun

ski m (plural ski's, diminutive skietje n)
* ski
    Synonym: sneeuwschaats

##### Derived terms

* skiën
* waterski

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

ski
* inflection of skiën:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

##### Derived terms

* skilift
* skivakantie

### Anagrams

* sik

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian ski.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ski/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ski m (plural skis)
* (countable) ski
* (uncountable) skiing (sport)
    faire du ski ― go skiing

#### Derived terms

* après-ski
* ballet à ski
* saut à ski
* ski acrobatique
* ski alpin
* ski attelé
* ski de fond
* ski évolutif
* ski nautique
* ski nordique
* ski para-alpin
* ski paranordique
* ski-bob
* skiabilité
* skiable
* skier
* skieur
* station de ski

#### Descendants

* → Asturian: esquí
* → Catalan: esquí
* → Galician: esquí
* → Persian: اسکی (eski)
* → Portuguese: esqui
* → Romanian: schi
* → Spanish: esquí
** → Basque: eski
** → Tagalog: eski

### Further reading

* “ski”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* ksi

## Middle English
### Noun

ski
* Alternative form of sky

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Norwegian ski.

### Noun

ski m
* skiing

### References

* “ski” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Danish ski, itself borrowed from Norwegian ski, skid, from Old Norse skíð (“snowshoe, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃiː/

### Noun

ski m or f (definite singular skien or skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skiene or skia)
* ski
    gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

#### Derived terms

* skibakke
* skigåer
* skigåing
* skihopper
* skihopping
* skiidrett
* skiløper
* skiløping
* skiløype
* skisenter
* skiskyting
* skispor
* skisted
* skitrekk
* skitur
* vannski

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: ski
* → Bulgarian: ски (ski)
* → Dutch: ski
* → English: ski
** → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
** → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
** → Okinawan: スキー
** → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)
* → French: ski
** → Asturian: esquí
** → Catalan: esquí
** → Galician: esquí
** → Persian: اسکی (eski)
** → Portuguese: esqui
** → Romanian: schi
** → Spanish: esquí
*** → Basque: eski
*** → Tagalog: eski
* → German: Ski, Schi (less common)
** → Hungarian: sí
* → Greek: σκι (ski)
* → Hebrew: סקי (ski)
* → Hindi: स्की (skī)
* → Italian: sci
* → Khmer: ស្គី (skii)
* → Ladino: schi
* → Lao: ສະກີ (sa kī)
* → Macedonian: скија (skija)
* → Mòcheno: ski
* → Portuguese: esqui
* → Serbo-Croatian: skija / скија
* → Urdu: سکی (skī)
* → Vietnamese: xki
* → Welsh: sgi
* →⇒ Cimbrian: skin

### References

* “ski” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* skid (pre-1901 (Landsmål))
* skjítt (dialectal, Setesdal dialect)

### Etymology

From Old Norse skíð n, from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“billet”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃiː/, /sçiː/

### Noun

ski f (definite singular skia, indefinite plural ski or skier, definite plural skia or skiene)
* ski
    gå på ski (plural) ― to ski

#### Derived terms

* skibakke
* skigåing
* skihopping
* skiidrett
* skilauping
* skiløping
* skiløype
* skisenter
* skiskyting
* skispor
* skitrekk
* skitur

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: ski
* → Bulgarian: ски (ski)
* → Danish: ski
* → Dutch: ski
* → English: ski
** → Japanese: スキー (sukī)
** → Korean: 스키 (seuki)
** → Okinawan: スキー
** → Thai: สกี (sà-gii)
* → French: ski
** → Asturian: esquí
** → Catalan: esquí
** → Galician: esquí
** → Persian: اسکی (eski)
** → Portuguese: esqui
** → Romanian: schi
** → Spanish: esquí
*** → Basque: eski
*** → Tagalog: eski
* → German: Ski, Schi (less common)
** → Hungarian: sí
* → Greek: σκι (ski)
* → Hebrew: סקי (ski)
* → Hindi: स्की (skī)
* → Italian: sci
* → Khmer: ស្គី (skii)
* → Ladino: schi
* → Lao: ສະກີ (sa kī)
* → Macedonian: скија (skija)
* → Mòcheno: ski
* → Portuguese: esqui
* → Serbo-Croatian: skija / скија
* → Urdu: سکی (skī)
* → Vietnamese: xki
* → Welsh: sgi
* →⇒ Cimbrian: skin

### References

* “ski” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈki/
* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈki/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃˈki/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈski/

### Noun

ski m (plural skis)
* Alternative form of esqui