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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *skinþą</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-01"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_skinþą</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_lav_skit" xml:lang="lav" type="cognate">
          <orth>šķĩt</orth>
          <def>to pluck leaves</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_lit_skinti" xml:lang="lit" type="cognate">
          <orth>ski̇̀nti</orth>
          <def>to pluck, pick</def>
        </item>
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_s_kenh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*(s)kenH-</orth>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_skintha" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skinþą">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>skinþą</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈskin.θɑ̃</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᚲᛁᚾᚦᚨ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">neuter</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>animal hide</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>human skin</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="3">
            <def>fruit peel</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">From Proto-Indo-European <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kenh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_kenh">*(s)kenH-</ref></mentioned> (‘skin, rind; to peel’). Cognate with Lithuanian <mentioned xml:lang="lit" target="#cog_lit_skinti"><ref target="#cog_lit_skinti">ski̇̀nti</ref></mentioned> (‘to pluck, pick’), Latvian <mentioned xml:lang="lav" target="#cog_lav_skit"><ref target="#cog_lav_skit">šķĩt</ref></mentioned> (‘to pluck leaves’).</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>skinþą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>skinþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>skinþą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>skinþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>skinþas, skinþis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>skinþǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>skinþai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>skinþamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>skinþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>skinþamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>skinþą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>skinþō</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                  <orth>*skind</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*schind, schinden</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>schinde</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>scind</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>schint</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Schinde</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skinn</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Faroese</lang>
                    <orth>skinn</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>skinn</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>schin</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                    <orth>skinn, skjenn</orth>
                  </form>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>skene</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skinn</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Danish</lang>
                    <orth>skind</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                      <orth>skinn</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skinn</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>scinn, scynn</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>skyn, schyn, scyn, skin, skinn, skinne, skynne, sckyn, scin</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>skin</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>skin</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yola</lang>
                        <orth>skien</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>skinn</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                    <orth>skin</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>skinn</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*skientō</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*skintē</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Samic</lang>
                  <orth>*kientē</orth>
                </form>
              </item>
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          </re>
        </entry>
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