German edit

Etymology edit

Sehne +‎ -ig

Pronunciation edit

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

Adjective edit

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 edit

Further reading edit

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