Noun: shin
Sample Sentences
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Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
Nouns inflected like shin
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
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin. See: Middle English Nouns '
schyne', Old English Nouns '
scinu', Dutch Nouns '
scheen', German Nouns '
Schiene'.
Verbs referencing "shin"
Galician Nouns
esquina, Spanish Nouns
esquina, German Nouns
Schiene, Italian Nouns
schiena, Dutch Nouns
scheen, Icelandic Nouns
skina, Catalan Nouns
esquena.