sehnig

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German

Etymology

Sehne +‎ -ig

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

Further reading

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