Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To shine; to glisten.
noun
Splendor; radiance; shininess. · A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBeautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny. · Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Middle Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsheneenm
- Inherited-form mentionsċīeneang · beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light
- Inherited-form mention*skaunīgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*skaunizgem-pro
- Derivation mention*(s)kewh₁-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionschenegmw-msc
- Cognate mentionskeenstq · clean, pure
- Cognate mentionskjinfy · nice, clean
- Cognate mentionschoonnl · clean, beautiful, fair
- Cognate mentionschönde · beautiful
- Cognate mentionskønda · beautiful
- Cognate mentionskjønnnb · beautiful
- Cognate mentionskjønnnn · beautiful
- Cognate mentionskönsv
- Cognate mentionkaunisfi
- Cognate mentionshowen
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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