Noun: shilling
| Singular | shilling |
| Plural | shillings |
Sample Sentences
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A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair. [1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:]
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The smaller silver coins of Europe, such as the solidus or German shilling, the mark, and others never found their way east in any quantity on account of their small size and value. [1909, United States Bureau of the Mint, “Annual Report of the Director of the Mint”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 281:]
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And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling. [2013, Selena Axelro Winsnes, A Danish Jew in West Africa: Wulff Joseph Wulff, Biography and Letters 1836-1842, pages 186-187:]
Nouns inflected like shilling
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *skiljaną
4. Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
5. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
6. Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
9. Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
10. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
11. Proto-Germanic *-gaz
12. ?
13. Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
14. Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz
15. Proto-Germanic *skillingaz
16. Old English sċilling
17. Middle English schilling
18. English shilling
19. From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.
20. Compare typologically Russian рубль (rublʹ) (akin to руби́ть (rubítʹ)), полти́на (poltína), полти́нник (poltínnik) (akin to Proto-Slavic *tęti). See: Middle English Nouns '
schilling'.
Verbs referencing "shilling"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
shilling, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
shilling, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
skilling, Italian Nouns
scellino, Finnish Nouns
šillinki, French Nouns
chelin, English Nouns
shilingi, Portuguese Nouns
xelim, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍃, Catalan Nouns
xíling, Romanian Nouns
șiling.