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Zink.

zinc

4 characters1 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/tsɪŋk/

  1. zinc

    neuter · no-plural · strong
Where this word comes from

Probably related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Old High German zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *tind, from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”).

noun/tsɪŋk/

  1. cornetto (a trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods)

    masculine · mixed
Where this word comes from

Probably from Zinke.

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