skina

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See also: skína and skiną

Cebuano

Noun

skina

  1. Clipping of eskina

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

skina f

  1. a small plate covering a keyhole
Declension

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Etymology 2

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

Noun

skina f

  1. peritoneum
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

skina f

  1. (dialectal) whiting (Merlangius merlangus)
Synonyms

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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

  1. to go crazy, be driven mad
Conjugation

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Etymology 5

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

Noun

skina f

  1. thin and rather liquid excrement; diarrheic feces

Etymology 6

Noun

skina

  1. indefinite genitive plural of skin

References

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

Verb

skìna

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²ʃiːna/, /²sçiːna/

Verb

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.

References

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

skina f

  1. bar, track

Descendants

  • Middle High German: schine, schin

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

skina f

  1. shin

Declension


Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

skīna

  1. to shine
  2. to appear

Conjugation

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. to shine

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