Old English · noun
scinu
Normalised sċinu
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /ˈʃi.nu/
- Syllables
- ˈʃi · nu (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- shin
Meaning
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shin
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with Old Saxon skina, Middle Dutch schene (Dutch scheen), Old High German scina (German Schiene (“rail, rack, skid, frame”)).
Descendants
shin
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