Zinne

See also: zinne

German

Etymology

From Middle High German zinne, from Old High German zinna, from Proto-Germanic *tindijō (“point, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt- (“tooth”). Cognate with Dutch tinne, German Low German Tinne. Related also to Old English tind (“peg, spike, prong”). More at English tine.

Alternatively, Old High German zinna may descend from Proto-Germanic *tinnō, *tinnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dént-no-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt- (“tooth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsɪnə/

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• Hyphenation: Zin‧ne

Noun

Zinne f (genitive Zinne, plural Zinnen)

1. merlon
2. (figurative, literary, in the plural) mountain peaks; (city's) battlements, towers
3. (Switzerland) roof terrace

Declension

Declension of Zinne [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Zinne	die	Zinnen
genitive	einer	der	Zinne	der	Zinnen
dative	einer	der	Zinne	den	Zinnen
accusative	eine	die	Zinne	die	Zinnen

Further reading

• “Zinne” in Duden online
• “Zinne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Zinne”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891