skøn
Danish
/skœnˀ/
adj
Definitions
- beautiful
- lovely, great, fantastic
- delicious
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German schȫne derived from Old Saxon skōni (beautiful, shiny) derived from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (beautiful, shining, shiny).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skauniz
Gloss
beautiful, shining, shiny
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- back English
- sheen English
- sheener English
- sheenest English
- sheenful English
- sheenless English
- sheenly English
- Schöngeist German
- Schönheit German
- Schönling German
- Schönredner German
- Schönschrift German
- Schönwetter German
- bildschön German
- formschön German
- schön German
- schönfärben German
- schöngeistig German
- schönreden German
- schöntun German
- unschön German
- verschönern German
- wunderschön German
- *(s)kewh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)ḱoun- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)ḱown- Proto-Indo-European
- *skaunistaz Proto-Germanic
- *skauniz Proto-Germanic
- *skaunizô Proto-Germanic
- scȳne Old English
- shene Middle English
- skyn Old Norse
- skynja Old Norse
- skønhed Danish
- skønne Danish
- skønsmæssig Danish
- bragðskyn Icelandic
- skyn Icelandic
- skynsemi Icelandic
- scōni Old High German
- schœne Middle High German
- 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- *skaunī gmw-pro
- scōni Old Dutch
- skōni Old Dutch
- *kaunis Proto-Finnic
- schone Middle Low German
- schö̂ne Middle Low German
- schȫne Middle Low German
- skōni Old Saxon
- jönik Volapük
- schön Central Franconian