Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skinō

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Proto-Germanic

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Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈski.nɔː/

Noun

*skinō f

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *skinō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*skinō	*skinôz
vocative	*skinō	*skinôz
accusative	*skinǭ	*skinōz
genitive	*skinōz	*skinǫ̂
dative	*skinōi	*skinōmaz
instrumental	*skinō	*skinōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *skinu
- Old English: sċinu
  - Middle English: schyne, schen, schin, schine, schyn, schynne, scine, shine, shyn, shzine
    - English: shin
    - Scots: shin, schin
- Old Frisian: *skine
  - Saterland Frisian: Skiene
  - West Frisian: skine
- Old Saxon: skina
  - Middle Low German: schēne
    - German Low German: Scheen, Schien
    - → Danish: skinne
    - → Norwegian: skinne, skina
    - → Swedish: skena
- Old Dutch: *skina
  - Middle Dutch: schene
    - Dutch: scheen
      - Afrikaans: skeen
- Old High German: skina, scina, scena
  - Middle High German: schine, schin
    - Alemannic German: Schine
    - German: Schiene
      - → Hungarian: sín
      - → Macedonian: шина (šina)
      - → Polish: szyna
      - → Romanian: șină
      - → Russian: шина (šina)
      - → Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: шина
        Latin script: šina
    - Luxembourgish: Schinn
- Lombardic: *skinko
  - → Italian: stinco
  (see there for further descendants)
Gothic: *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌰 (*skina)
- → Vulgar Latin: *skina (see there for further descendants)
Unsorted formations:
- → Old French: eschine, enchine, echine, chine
  - Middle French: eschine
    - French: échine
  - → Middle English: chyne
    - English: chine