Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Brightness from a source of light. · Brightness from reflected light. · Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour. · Shoeshine.
To emit or reflect light so as to glow. · To reflect light. · To distinguish oneself; to excel. · To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
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