schréi

See also: schrei and Schrei

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German schrage (“grid of items arranged crosswise, e.g. of wooden pegs”), probably related with schränken (“to arrange crosswise”), from Old High German screnken (“to slant”), from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz (“barrier, grid”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”).[1] Cognate with German schräg.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃʀɜɪ̯/
  • Rhymes: -ɜɪ

Adjective

schréi (masculine schréien, neuter schréit, comparative méi schréi, superlative am schréisten)

  1. oblique, slanted

Declension
declension of schréi
number and gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative hien ass schréi si ass schréi et ass schréi si si(nn) schréi
nominative /
accusative		 attributive and/or after determiner schréien schréi schréit schréi
independent without determiner schréies schréier
dative after any declined word schréien schréier schréien schréien
as first declined word schréiem schréiem

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883) “schränken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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