Schinken
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German schinke, from Old High German scinco, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō, from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, *skinkō (“shank; thigh”). In the sense “tome” originally student slang (18th c.), from the use of pigskin leather to bind such books.
Related to German Low German Schinken (also: skinken, sschinken (Westphalian; linguistic spelling; accusative)) Middle Dutch schenke (“shin, hough, ham”), Middle English schench (“thigh; leg”), dialectal English skink (“a shin of beef”), also English shank (“lower part of the leg”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Schinken m (strong, genitive Schinkens, plural Schinken)
- ham, pork from the hindquarter
- 1803, Neues Kochbuch für bürgerliche Haushaltungen, oder Anweisung zur Zubereitung einer gesunden und schmackhaften Hausmannskost, [...], Coburg, page 62:
- Einen Schinken gut zu backen. […] wällt ihn nach der Form des Schinken aus, […] Wenn der der Schinken abgetrocknet ist, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (colloquial) hams, buttocks
- Synonym: Oberschenkel
- (colloquial, often derogatory) old tome or painting
- Ölschinken ― (large) oil painting
Declension
[edit]Declension of Schinken [masculine, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: шунка (šunka)
- → Czech: šunka
- → Esperanto: ŝinko
- → Estonian: sink
- → Hungarian: sonka
- → Latvian: šķiņķis
- → Macedonian: шунка (šunka)
- → Polish: szynka
- → Romanian: șuncă
- → Russian: шинка (šinka) (regional)
- → Serbo-Croatian: šunka / шунка
- → Slovak: šunka
- → Slovene: šunka
- → Ukrainian: шинка (šynka)
- → Yiddish: שינקע (shinke) (via a Slavic borrowing)
Further reading
[edit]- “Schinken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schinken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Schinken” in Duden online
- “Schinken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Schinken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schinken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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