Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To injure the skin of. · To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. · To high five. · To apply a skin to (a computer program).
The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. · The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. · The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. · A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kenH- Proto-Germanic *skinþąder. Middle English skyn English skin From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionskynenm
- Inherited-form mentionscinnang
- Derivation mentionskinnnon · animal hide
- Derivation mention*skinþągem-pro
- Derivation mention*sken-ine-pro · to split off
- Cognate mentionschindenl
- Cognate mentionskantbr
- Cognate mentioncennsga · covering, shell
- Cognate mentionscáinga · to tear, burst
- Cognate mentionscindōla · to split, divide
- Cognate mentionछिनत्तिsa · to split
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