Description:

The term 'skel' refers to a field or yard, or some other open space. IT comes form Old Common.

Noun:

As a noun, 'skel' is an open outdoor space, any field or yard, and can also extend to a meadow or clearing. It is also used in sports to describe an outdoor playing field, a calque from English, as it did not originally have this sense.

Verb:

As a verb, 'skel' is a skurun verb meaning to put something or someone into play in a game or anything that ius metaphorically like a game. It takes an ergative player, and an absolutive thing put into play. It also has a benefactive happat form where the goal of the action can be indicated in the dative case. This sense of 'skel' is thought to be a calque from English, arising as early as a the late early period.

Modifier: 

The modifier form 'skelys' can be used to mean 'clear', including senses like 'ny skelys zoa', a coat sky