skerping

English

Etymology

From Faroese skerping (“sharpening”).

Noun

skerping (uncountable)

  1. (phonetics) In the Faroese language, the phenomenon where back vowels are fronted before [kv], and certain diphthongs are monophthongized before [tʃː].

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