Zinne
See also: zinne
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German zinne, from Old High German zinna, from Proto-Germanic *tindijō (“point, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt- (“tooth”). Cognate with Dutch tinne, German Low German Tinne. Related also to Old English tind (“peg, spike, prong”). More at English tine.
Alternatively, Old High German zinna may descend from Proto-Germanic *tinnō, *tinnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dént-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt- (“tooth”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Zinne f (genitive Zinne, plural Zinnen)
- merlon
- (figurative, literary, in the plural) mountain peaks; (city's) battlements, towers
- (Switzerland) roof terrace
Declension edit
Declension of Zinne [feminine]
Further reading edit
- “Zinne” in Duden online
- “Zinne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Zinne”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891