Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
A cord or tendon of the body. · A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument. · Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength. · That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
From Middle English synwe, synewe (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”), from *(s)neh₁- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”). The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zeen (“sinew”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Danish sene (“tendon, sinew”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit स्नावन् (snāván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*(s)neh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsynweenm
- Inherited-form mentionsinuang
- Inherited-form mention*sinugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sinwōgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*snéh₁wr̥ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsenonsco
- Cognate mentionSienestq
- Cognate mentionsenuwfy
- Cognate mentionzeennl
- Cognate mentionzenuwnl
- Cognate mentionSehnede
- Cognate mentionsinis
- Cognate mentionseneda
- Cognate mentionsenasv
- Cognate mention𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭ae
- Cognate mentionνεῦρονgrc
- Cognate mentionnervusla
- Cognate mentionस्नावन्sa
- Cognate mentionṣñortxb
- Doublet mentionnerveen
- Doublet mentionneuronen
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