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Old English · noun

synn

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/synn/
[syn]
Syllables
synn (1 syllable)
Modern English
sinmisdeedfault

Meaning

  1. misdeed, fault, crime, wrong

  2. sin

    Þū eart on cwearterne þīnra āgenra synna.

    You're in a prison of your own sins.

Declension

Declension of synn
SingularPlural
Nominative synnsynnasynne
Accusative synnesynnasynne
Genitive synnesynna
Dative synnesynnum

All forms (4)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju (“actuality, distress, concern”), from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, reality”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”); with semantic influenced from similar sounding Proto-West Germanic *sundiju, *sundī, from Proto-Germanic *sundī (“crime, sin”). Cognates include Old High German sunna (“justification”), Old Norse syn (“denial”), and Gothic (sunja, “truth”). Replaced the reflex of Proto-West Germanic *sundi, which provides the word for "sin" in most other West Germanic languages.

Descendants

sin

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