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
shin, spine

Inflection

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

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: шина
      Latin: šina
  - Luxembourgish: Schinn
Lombardic: *skinko
- → Italian: stinco
(see there for further descendants)

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*skina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 112

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*skina”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 112