Noun: skina
Gender: f
Declension:
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | skina |
| Sg. Def. | skinan |
| Pl. Indef. | skinur |
| Pl. Def. | skinurnar |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | skinu |
| Sg. Def. | skinunnar |
| Pl. Indef. | skina |
| Pl. Def. | skinanna |
Dative
| Sg. Indef. | skinu |
| Sg. Def. | skinunni |
| Pl. Indef. | skinum |
| Pl. Def. | skinunum |
Accusative
| Sg. Indef. | skinu |
| Sg. Def. | skinuna |
| Pl. Indef. | skinur |
| Pl. Def. | skinurnar |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like skina
snupra,
snerra,
satíra,
smiðja,
slaufa,
harmónikka,
sjálfa,
skyssa,
munkahetta,
skissa,
skinka,
skinna,
skotta,
skonsa,
skessa,
skepna,
skeina,
skemma,
upprisa,
tvísykra, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Swedish Nouns '
skena', Old English Nouns '
scinu', English Nouns '
shin', Old English Nouns '
scīa', Latin Nouns '
sciō'.
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