ð, [from Germ. ge-scheben; Dan. skee], to happen; it appears first in the 15th century, í Licia skeði litlu síðarr, Nikdr. 51; þar af hefir opt mikil óhæfa skét, H. E. ii. 168 (seems to be due to a transcript, as are also passages such as Ísl. ii. 66, v. l. 4); after the Reformation the word became freq. in the N. T., Pass., Vídal., cp. also Safn i. 31, 32; in má-ské, kann-ské, may be!