scinban

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to sċinu +‎ bān.

Noun

sċinbān n (nominative plural sċinbān)

(anatomy) shinbone, shin.

Inflection

Declension of scinban (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sċinbān	sċinbān
accusative	sċinbān	sċinbān
genitive	sċinbānes	sċinbāna
dative	sċinbāne	sċinbānum

Descendants

Middle English: schineboon, schinbone
- English: shinbone

References

scinbán in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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