scinan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skīnan, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiː.nɑn/

Verb

sċīnan

1. to shine
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.

     Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.

   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     God ġeworhte ðā sōna twā sċīnende lēoht myċele and mǣre, mōnan and sunnan, ðā sunnan on meriġen tō ðǣs dæġes lihtinge, ðone mōnan on ǣfen mannum tō lihtinge on nihtlīcere tīde...And ealle steorran hē ēac ðā geworhte, and hē hī ġefæstnode on ðām fæstan rodore ðæt hī ðā eorðan onlīhton mid heora mæniġfealdum lēoman.

     Thereafter, God made two shining lights, a greater one and a lesser one, the moon and the sun, with the Sun to shine by day, and the moon to shine by night...and he also made all the stars, and he fixed them in the firm heavens so that they could illumine the earth with their manyfold rays.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sċīnan (strong class 1)

infinitive	sċīnan	sċīnenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	sċīne	sċān
second person singular	sċīnst	sċine
third person singular	sċīnþ	sċān
plural	sċīnaþ	sċinon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	sċīne	sċine
plural	sċīnen	sċinen
imperative
singular	sċīn
plural	sċīnaþ
participle	present	past
	sċīnende	(ġe)sċinen

Derived terms

• besċīnan
• ġeondsċīnan
• ġesċīnan
• ymbsċīnan

Related terms

• sċīma

Descendants

• Middle English: schinen, scinen, sinen, schynen, shinen, shynen, shyne, schyne, schine, shine, schyn, schinin, ssine
  • English: shine
  • Scots: shine, shyne

Old Saxon

Verb

scīnan

1. Alternative spelling of skīnan