Zinke

See also: zinke

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zinke.

Proper noun

Zinke (plural Zinkes)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Zinke is the 23866^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1058 individuals. Zinke is most common among White (94.14%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Zinke”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

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German

Alternative forms

• Zinken m

Etymology

From Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko, probably an enhanced form of zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”).

Cognates:

Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic tindur (“spike, tooth of a rake or harrow, pinnacle, peak, battlement”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Zinke f (genitive Zinke, plural Zinken)

1. prong
2. tine
3. tenon

Declension

Declension of Zinke [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Zinke	die	Zinken
genitive	einer	der	Zinke	der	Zinken
dative	einer	der	Zinke	den	Zinken
accusative	eine	die	Zinke	die	Zinken

Further reading

• “Zinke” in Duden online
• “Zinke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache