scinn

== Irish == === Alternative forms === sceinn (superseded) sgeinn, sginn (obsolete) === Etymology === From Old Irish sceindid, from Proto-Celtic *skanndeti (whence Welsh ysgain), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump”) (whence Sanskrit स्कन्द् (skand, “to jump, leap”), Latin scandō (“to ascend, mount”). === Verb === scinn (present analytic scinneann, future analytic scinnfidh, verbal noun scinneadh, past participle scinnte) (intransitive) to spring (forth), gush (forth) to start (jerk suddenly in surprise), shy (jump back in fear) to dart (fly or pass swiftly), fly off, fly out, dash, shoot (move very quickly and suddenly), scurry to depart suddenly, vanish [with ó ‘from’] scinn chun siúil ― to rush off to escape [with ó ‘from’] to glance (strike and fly off in an oblique direction to dart aside), glance off [with de] to graze (rub or touch lightly the surface of in passing) [with de] to skim (glide along near the surface) ==== Conjugation ==== Alternative verbal noun: sceinm ==== Derived terms ==== athscinn (“recoil”, verb) === References === === Further reading === Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “sceinnim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 607 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “scinn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN == Old English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ʃinn/, [ʃin] Rhymes: -inn ==== Noun ==== sċinn n alternative form of sċīn ===== Declension ===== Strong a-stem: === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”). ==== Alternative forms ==== scynn ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /skinn/, [skin] Rhymes: -inn ==== Noun ==== scinn n (Late Old English) a skin ===== Declension ===== Strong a-stem: ===== Descendants ===== Middle English: skyn, schyn, scyn, skin, skinn, skinne, skynne, sckyn (Late Middle English), scin (Kent)English: skinScots: skinYola: skien === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “scinn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.