"skyfall" meaning in Swedish

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Noun

IPA: /²ɧỳːfal/
Etymology: Compound of sky (“sky”) + fall (“fall”). First attested in 1734. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com+|sv|sky|fall|t1=sky|t2=fall}} Compound of sky (“sky”) + fall (“fall”), {{etydate|1734|ref=skyfall in Svensk ordbok (SO)}} First attested in 1734 Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||||g=n|g2=|g3=|g4=|head=|sort=}} skyfall n, {{sv-noun|n}} skyfall n Inflection templates: {{sv-infl-noun-n-zero}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], skyfall [indefinite, nominative, singular], skyfalls [genitive, indefinite, singular], skyfallet [definite, nominative, singular], skyfallets [definite, genitive, singular], skyfall [indefinite, nominative, plural], skyfalls [genitive, indefinite, plural], skyfallen [definite, nominative, plural], skyfallens [definite, genitive, plural], ſkyfall [alternative, obsolete]
  1. hard rain, cloudburst Tags: neuter Synonyms: störtskur, störtregn, spöregn, hällregn, ösregn Derived forms: skyfallsliknande (english: hard rain-like)
    Sense id: en-skyfall-sv-noun-YBR2eNBT Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Rain

Inflected forms

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          "english": "At ten o’Clock at Night the Storm return’d, and at the ſame Time broke out into a violent Shower, which occaſion’d ſuch a Flood, that the Auſtrian Village of Magden, lying in the Dale and half a Mile from Rheinfelden, ſtood five Minutes under Water, which had riſen to twelve Foot, and ſwept away fifteen Houſes, with People and Cattle, together with all elſe that was therein.",
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