shone
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
shone
- simple past and past participle of shine
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English scȳne, scēone (“beautiful, fair, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Compare Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), German schön (“beautiful”).
Adjective
shone
- beautiful, glorious, excellent, resplendent, noble
- Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225
- (St. Nicolas, beloved by God, build us beautiful, resplendent house!)
- As glysnande golde ... So schon þat schene ... On lenghe I loked to hyr. — Pearl, 1400
- (As glistening gold ... So beautiful that sheen ... Longingly I looked at her.)
- Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225
Descendants
- English: sheen
References
- Middle English dictionary (shone)
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