Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skinþą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenǝ- (“skin, rind; to peel”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈskin.θɑ̃/

Noun edit

*skinþą n

animal hide
fruit peel
skin (human)

Inflection edit

neuter a-stemDeclension of *skinþą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*skinþą	*skinþō
vocative	*skinþą	*skinþō
accusative	*skinþą	*skinþō
genitive	skinþas, skinþis	*skinþǫ̂
dative	*skinþai	*skinþamaz
instrumental	*skinþō	*skinþamiz

Descendants edit

Old Dutch: *skind
- Middle Dutch: *schind (attested by verb schinden)
  - Dutch: schinde (dialectal; and possibly from German)
Old High German: scind
- Middle High German: schint
  - German: Schinde (dialectal)
Old Norse: skinn
- Icelandic: skinn
- Faroese: skinn
- Norwegian Bokmål: skinn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: skinn
- Old Swedish: skin
  - Swedish: skinn
- Danish: skind
- → Old English: scinn
  - Middle English: skyn, scin, skin, skinne (reinforced by Old Norse during Middle English period)
    - English: skin
    - Scots: skin
- → Old Frisian: skene
- → Middle Low German: schin