skinne

skinne (countable and uncountable, plural skinnes)

1. Obsolete spelling of skin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Jeremiah 13:23, column 1:

     Can the Ethiopian change his ſkinne? or the leopard his ſpots?

   • 1624, Iohn Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: , London: I D and I H for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 6); reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC:

     Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.

   • 1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. , London: Nich and John Okes, for James Becket, , →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso:

     VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]

• IPA^(key): /skenə/,

From Middle Low German schene (“little plate”) or from German Schiene (“rail, splint”), from Old Saxon or Old High German skina, all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skinu (“track, bar”).

skinne c (singular definite skinnen, plural indefinite skinner)

1. rail
2. band
3. splint
4. rail (of a railway or tramway)

From Old Norse skína (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine, appear”).

skinne (imperative skin, infinitive at skinne, present tense skinner, past tense skinnede, perfect tense har skinnet)

1. shine
2. gleam
3. glimmer

skinne

1. Alternative form of skyn

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Jernbaneskinne

Wikipedia ^no

From German Schiene.

skinne f or m (definite singular skinna or skinnen, indefinite plural skinner, definite plural skinnene)

1. a rail (on a railway or tramway)

• énskinnebane

• skjene (Nynorsk)

From Old Norse skína.

skinne (imperative skinn, present tense skinner, simple past skinte or skein, past participle skint, present participle skinnende)

1. to shine

• skinn (Etymology 2)

• skina, skine (Nynorsk)

• “skinne” in The Bokmål Dictionary.