skina

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See also: skína and skiną

Cebuano

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skina

  1. Clipping of eskina

Icelandic

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Etymology 1

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Related to Norwegian Nynorsk skĭne, Swedish skena (small, thin plate); Old High German skina, Middle Dutch scene (metal or wooden plate; shinbone); Old English scinu (whence English shin). Compare also Old English scīa (shin), Middle High German schīe (fencepost). From Proto-Indo-European *skē̆i- (split, cleave, separate), whence also Latin sciō (to know).

Noun

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skina f (genitive singular skinu, nominative plural skinur)

  1. a small plate covering a keyhole
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Etymology 2

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Neologism, probably related to skína (to shine), skin (shine) and Etymology 3, probably referring to the peritoneum's thin, transparent quality.

Noun

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skina f (genitive singular skinu, nominative plural skinur)

  1. peritoneum
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Etymology 3

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Probably related to skína (to shine), skin (shine), likely in reference to the fish's light color. Compare with the synonym lýsa, related to the verb lýsa (to emit light), the noun ljós (light) and adjective ljós (light).

Noun

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skina f (genitive singular skinu, nominative plural skinur)

  1. (dialectal) whiting (Merlangius merlangus)
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Etymology 4

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Cf. Norwegian Nynorsk skĭna, Norwegian Nynorsk skjena (to run off because of mosquitoes (of cows)), Swedish skena and Jutish skjenne (to shy (of a horse)).

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skina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skinaði, supine skinað)

  1. to go crazy, be driven mad
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Etymology 5

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Probably related to skína (to shine), skin (shine) and Etymology 3, referring to the light, transparent look of diarrheic feces.

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skina f (genitive singular skinu, nominative plural skinur)

  1. thin and rather liquid excrement; diarrheic feces
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Etymology 6

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Noun

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skina

  1. indefinite genitive plural of skin

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Lithuanian

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Verb

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skìna

  1. third-person singular present of skinti
  2. third-person plural present of skinti

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną. Akin to English shine.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /²ʃiːna/, /²sçiːna/

Verb

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skina (present tense skin, past tense skein, past participle skine, passive infinitive skinast, present participle skinande, imperative skin)

  1. shine
    I dag skin sola.
    The sun is shining today.

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Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō.

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skina f

  1. bar, track

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  • Middle High German: schine, schin

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō.

Cognate with Old English sċinu (English shin), Dutch scheen, Old High German scina (German Schiene (thin plate)), and Portuguese esquina

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skina f

  1. shin

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Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.

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skīna

  1. to shine
  2. to appear

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish skīna, from Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.

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skina (present skiner, preterite sken, supine skinit, imperative skin)

  1. to shine

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