Scheldt

//ʃɛlt// name

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  1. 1
    A river flowing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

    "Perhaps as a child she watched for his ship coming up the Scheldt."

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scheldt river

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"Perhaps as a child she watched for his ship coming up the Scheldt."

Etymology

Derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *skala-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out, wither”). Modern English shoal, Low German schol, Frisian skol, and Swedish (obsolete) skäll, "thin".

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