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].

Further reading

• Skerping on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• perkings