Etymology

sheener

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Middle English schenre ← Old English sċēnra ← Proto-Germanic *skaunizô
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skauniz“shiny; beautiful”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skaunizô
  3. Old English · inherited fromsċēnra
  4. Middle English · inherited fromschenre
  5. English todaysheener

From Middle English schenre, from Old English sċēnra, sċȳnra, from Proto-Germanic *skaunizô, comparative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -er.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skauniz all →

sheen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.