The (feminine) headword is unattested outside lexicography, though it is reckoned (e.g. LSJ s.v.) related/identical to qui+/skh ('censer'), with the root qu- suggesting some relation to sacrificial ritual. The gloss, ska/fh, can refer to anything that is dug out (see sigma 543), such as a bowl, a small boat or a ditch. But cf. Etymologicum Magnum 458.53, where the present headword is defined more fully as "the ska/fh that holds the sacrificial offerings," and where qu/mata ('sacrificial offerings') is almost certainly a mistake for qumia/mata ('incense'); cf. Etym.Magn. 458.52, where qu/skos is similarly defined as a holder for qumia/mata. See also Hesychius theta963.