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Scheldt

UK/ʃɛlt/ US/skɛlt/ uncommon

noun

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a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea

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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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