Zinke

See also: zinke

German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German zint (“a jag, point”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”), see also 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”).

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Noun

Zinke f (genitive Zinke, plural Zinken)

1. prong
2. tine
3. tenon

Further reading

• “Zinke” in Duden online