*skinþą

Runic: ᛊᚲᛁᚾᚦᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈskin.θɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

animal hide
human skin
fruit peel

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenH- (‘skin, rind; to peel’). Cognate with Lithuanian ski̇̀nti (‘to pluck, pick’), Latvian šķĩt (‘to pluck leaves’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	skinþą	skinþō
Acc.	skinþą	skinþō
Gen.	skinþas, skinþis	skinþǫ̂
Dat.	skinþai	skinþamaz
Inst.	skinþō	skinþamiz
Voc.	skinþą	skinþō

Descendants

*skind (Old Dutch)
- *schind, schinden (Middle Dutch)
  - schinde (Dutch)
scind (Old High German)
- schint (Middle High German)
  - Schinde (German)
skinn (Old Norse)
- skinn (Faroese)
- skinn (Icelandic)
- schin (Middle Low German)
- skinn, skjenn (Norwegian Nynorsk)
- skene (Old Frisian)
skinn (Old Norse)
- skind (Danish)
  - skinn (Norwegian Bokmål)
skinn (Old Norse)
- scinn, scynn (Old English)
  - skyn, schyn, scyn, skin, skinn, skinne, skynne, sckyn, scin (Middle English)
    - skin (English)
    - skin (Scots)
    - skien (Yola)
skinn (Old Norse)
- skin (Old Swedish)
  - skinn (Swedish)
*skientō (Proto-Samic)
*skintē (Proto-Samic)
*kientē (Proto-Samic)

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