sin
det
Meaning
- his
- its
- genitive of hī: his
- genitive of hit: its
Etymology / origin
From Proto-West Germanic *sīn (“his, her, its, their”, genitive reflexive). Cognate with Old English sīn (“his, her, its, their”), Old Saxon sīn (“his”) (Middle Low German sin), Dutch zijn, Old High German sīn (“his”) (German sein), Old Norse sínn (“one's own”), Old English sē (“that, that one, he”).
- se(Old English)→
- sínn(Old Norse)→
- sein(German)→
- sin(Old High German)→
- zijn(Dutch)→
- sin(gml)→
- sin(Old Saxon)→
- sin(Old English)→
- *sīn(gmw-pro)→
- sin (Old Frisian)
- Relations: inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- sin(Old English) (cog)
- sin(Saterland Frisian) (inh)
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