sehnig

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German

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Etymology

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Sehne +‎ -ig

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈzeːnɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈzeːnɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
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  • Hyphenation: seh‧nig

Adjective

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sehnig (strong nominative masculine singular sehniger, comparative sehniger, superlative am sehnigsten)

  1. (meat) sinewy; stringy (full of long fibres and hence difficult to chew)
  2. (person) wiry (thin and slender, but tough, such that one can see sinews and muscle fibres under the skin)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • sehnig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • sehnig” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon