Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth. · Talk. · A lie, a falsehood. · A person of the upper class.
To talk. · To talk to or with (someone). · To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar). · To punch or hit (someone), especially on the chin (part of the body).
From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”). Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanweṃ, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.
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- Inherited-form mentionchynenm
- Inherited-form mentionċinnang
- Inherited-form mention*kinnugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kinnuzgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ǵénusine-pro
- Cognate mentionkindda
- Cognate mentionkinnis
- Cognate mentiongency
- Cognate mentiongenala
- Cognate mentionśanweṃxto
- Cognate mentionγένυςgrc
- Cognate mentionծնոտhy
- Cognate mentionچانهfa
- Cognate mentionहनुsa
- Doublet mentiongenaen
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