shone
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, Received Pronunciation)
- (US)
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ʃɑn/
- (General Australian)
Verb[edit]
shone
- simple past and past participle of shine
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
shone m
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English scȳne, scēone (“beautiful, fair, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Compare Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), German schön (“beautiful”).
Adjective[edit]
shone
- beautiful, glorious, excellent, resplendent, noble
- Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225
- St. Nicolas, beloved by God, build us beautiful, resplendent houses!
- As glysnande golde ... So schon þat schene ... On lenghe I loked to hyr. — Pearl, 1400
- As glistening gold ... So beautiful that sheen ... Longingly I looked at her.
- Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225
Descendants[edit]
- English: sheen
References[edit]
- “shẹ̄ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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