Noun: shinbone
| Singular | shinbone |
| Plural | shinbones |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like shinbone
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 schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”). See: Dutch Nouns '
scheenbeen', German Nouns '
Schienbein', Danish Nouns '
skinneben', Swedish Nouns '
skenben'.
Verbs referencing "shinbone"
German Nouns
Schienbein, Dutch Nouns
scheenbeen.