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hud.

skin (outer covering of living tissue of a person)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/huːˀð/[ˈhuðˀ]/huð/[ˈhuð]

  1. skin (outer covering of living tissue of a person)

    common-gender · uncountable

  2. hide (skin of an animal)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse húð, from Proto-Germanic *hūdiz, cognate with Norwegian, Swedish hud, English hide, German Haut, Dutch huid.

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