skina

• Rhymes: -ɪːna

Related to Norwegian (nynorsk) skĭne, Swedish skena (both meaning ‘small, thin plate’); Old High German skina and Middle Dutch scene, both ‘metal or wooden plate; shinbone’; Old English scinu ( > English shin). Compare also Old English scīa ‘shin’, Middle High German schīe ‘fencepost’. From Indo-European root *skē̆i- ‘split, cleave, separate’, whence also Latin sciō ‘know’.

skina f

1. a small plate covering a keyhole

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• skinna
• skráarlauf

Neologism, probably related to skína ‘to shine’, skin ‘shine’ (noun) and skina (3), probably referring to the peritoneum's thin, transparent quality.

skina f

1. peritoneum

• lífhimna
• holhimna

Probably related to skína ‘to shine’, skin ‘shine’ (noun), likely in reference to the fish's light color. Compare with the synonym lýsa, related to the verb lýsa ‘emit light’, the noun ljós ‘light’ and adjective ljós ‘light’.

skina f

1. (dialectal) whiting (Merlangius merlangus)

• lýsa
• jakobsfiskur
• lundaseiði

Cf. Norwegian (nynorsk) skĭna, skjena ‘to run off because of mosquitoes’ (of cows), Swedish skena and Jutish skjenne ‘to shy’ (of a horse).

skina (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative skinaði, supine skinað)

1. to go crazy, be driven mad

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• brjálast
• ganga af göflunum
• geggjast
• sturlast
• ærast

Probably related to skína ‘to shine’, skin ‘shine’ (noun) and skina (3), referring to the light, transparent look of diarrheic feces.

skina f

1. thin and rather liquid excrement; diarrheic feces

skina

1. indefinite genitive plural of skin

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʲkʲɪn̪ɐ]

skìna

1. third-person singular present of skinti
2. third-person plural present of skinti

• skine (e infinitive)

From Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną. Akin to English shine.

• IPA^(key): /²ʃiːnɑ/

skina (present tense skin, past tense skein, past participle skine, passive infinitive skinast, present participle skinande, imperative skin)

1. shine

   I dag skin sola.

   The sun is shining today.

• skinne (Bokmål)

• “skina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• scina, scena, *skinko (Lombardic)

From Proto-Germanic *skinō

skina f

1. bar, track

• Middle High German: schine, schin
  • Alemannic German: Schine
  • German: Schiene
    • → Hungarian: sín
    • → Macedonian: шина (šina)
    • → Polish: szyna
    • → Romanian: șină
    • → Russian: шина (šina)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: шина

      Latin: šina

  • Luxembourgish: Schinn

From Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with Old English scinu (English shin), Dutch scheen, Old High German scina (German Schiene (“thin plate”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̺kɪnɑ/

skina f

1. shin

• Middle Low German: schēne
  • German Low German: Scheen, Schien
  • → Danish: skinne
  • → Norwegian: skinne, skina
  • → Swedish: skena

From Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.

skīna

1. to shine
2. to appear

• Swedish: skina

From Old Swedish skīna, from Old Norse skína, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɧiːˌna/

skina

1. to shine

• påskina
• sken

• försköna
• glänsa
• skena
• skimra