Zinne
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German zinne, from Old High German zinna, from Proto-Germanic *tindijō (“point, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“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 *h₃dónts (“tooth”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Zinne f (genitive Zinne, plural Zinnen)
- merlon
- (figurative, literary, in the plural) mountain peaks; (city's) battlements, towers
- (Switzerland) roof terrace
Declension
[edit]Declension of Zinne [feminine]
Further reading
[edit]- “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
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