Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skinu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skinō.

Noun

*skinu f

1. bar, track
2. shin, spine

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skinu
Genitive	*skinā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skinu	*skinō
Accusative	*skinā	*skinā
Genitive	*skinā	*skinō
Dative	*skinē	*skinōm, *skinum
Instrumental	*skinu	*skinōm, *skinum

Descendants

• 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)