eschine

== Middle French == === Etymology === Old French eschine. === Noun === eschine f (plural eschines) spine ==== Descendants ==== French: échine === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “eschine”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. == Old French == === Alternative forms === enchine, echine, chine === Etymology === Borrowed from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. More at shin. === Noun === eschine oblique singular, f (oblique plural eschines, nominative singular eschine, nominative plural eschines) spine ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: eschineFrench: échine → Middle English: chyne English: chine === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “eschine”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC. Etymology and history of “échine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012