Participles
| Present | sċīnende |
| Past | (ġe)sċinen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | sċīne |
| 2nd sing. | sċīnst |
| 3rd sing. | sċīnþ |
| 1st plur. | sċīnaþ |
| 2nd plur. | sċīnaþ |
| 3rd plur. | sċīnaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | sċān |
| 2nd sing. | sċine |
| 3rd sing. | sċān |
| 1st plur. | sċinon |
| 2nd plur. | sċinon |
| 3rd plur. | sċinon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | sċīne |
| 2nd sing. | sċīne |
| 3rd sing. | sċīne |
| 1st plur. | sċīnen |
| 2nd plur. | sċīnen |
| 3rd plur. | sċīnen |
Past
| 1st sing. | sċine |
| 2nd sing. | sċine |
| 3rd sing. | sċine |
| 1st plur. | sċinen |
| 2nd plur. | sċinen |
| 3rd plur. | sċinen |
Imperative
| Singular | sċīn |
| Plural | sċīnaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'scinan'
scinan,
Verbs similar to 'scinan'
ascinan,
cinan,
scitan,
acwinan,
ascian,
bescinan,
cidan,
cigan,
dwinan,
frinan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *skīnan, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y-. See: Proto-Germanic '
*skīnaną'.
Sample Sentences
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Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
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Tēoh ðū forð rēnsċūras, ġif ðū miht, and ġewætera ðīne æceras. Ġif ðū mage, dō þæt sunne sċīne, þæt ðīne æceras ripion. (Draw forth rainshowers, if you can, and water your fields. If you can, make the sun shine, so that your fields ripen.)
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam. (Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.)
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God ġeworhte ðā sōna twā sċīnende lēoht myċele and mǣre, mōnan and sunnan, ðā sunnan on meriġen tō ðǣs dæġes lihtinge, ðone mōnan on ǣfen mannum tō lihtinge on nihtlīcere tīde...And ealle steorran hē ēac ðā geworhte, and hē hī ġefæstnode on ðām fæstan rodore ðæt hī ðā eorðan onlīhton mid heora mæniġfealdum lēoman. (Thereafter, God made two shining lights, a greater one and a lesser one, the moon and the sun, with the Sun to shine by day, and the moon to shine by night...and he also made all the stars, and he fixed them in the firm heavens so that they could illumine the earth with their manyfold rays.) [c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:]
Cognates
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