skyr.
skyr (yogurt-like product made of curdled milk)
Meaning & usage
skyr (yogurt-like product made of curdled milk)
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse skyr (“thick curdled milk”, literally “separated”), from skera (“to divide”). Related to the terms Danish skør (dialect), skørost (dialect), Norwegian Nynorsk skyr (“buttermilk, cultured milk”) or skjør, and Swedish skyr. The Latin term lac concretum (“thick milk”) is found in Tacitus' Germania. Possibly borrowed into English as English scurvy.
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