shinbone

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
  2. A segment of an insect's leg.

Übersetzungen

κνήμη

le devant de la jambe

καλάμι

قَصَبَة

κνημιαίο οστό

Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

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