skina.
a small plate covering a keyhole
Meaning & usage
a small plate covering a keyhole
Where this word comes from
Related to Norwegian Nynorsk skĭne, Swedish skena (“small, thin plate”); Old High German skina, Middle Dutch scene (“metal or wooden plate; shinbone”); Old English scinu (whence English shin). Compare also Old English scīa (“shin”), Middle High German schīe (“fencepost”). From Proto-Indo-European *skē̆i- (“split, cleave, separate”), whence also Latin sciō (“to know”).
peritoneum
Where this word comes from
Neologism, probably related to skína (“to shine”), skin (“shine”) and Etymology 3, probably referring to the peritoneum's thin, transparent quality.
to go crazy, be driven mad
Where this word comes from
Cf. Norwegian Nynorsk skĭna, Norwegian Nynorsk skjena (“to run off because of mosquitoes (of cows)”), Swedish skena and Jutish skjenne (“to shy (of a horse)”).
thin and rather liquid excrement; diarrheic feces
Where this word comes from
Probably related to skína (“to shine”), skin (“shine”) and Etymology 3, referring to the light, transparent look of diarrheic feces.
whiting (Merlangius merlangus)
Where this word comes from
Probably related to skína (“to shine”), skin (“shine”), likely in reference to the fish's light color. Compare with the synonym lýsa, related to the verb lýsa (“to emit light”), the noun ljós (“light”) and adjective ljós (“light”).
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