Etymology

sheenest

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Middle English shenest ← Old English sċēnost ← Proto-Germanic *skaunistaz
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*skauniz“shiny; beautiful”
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*skaunistaz
  3. Old English · inherited fromsċēnost
  4. Middle English · inherited fromshenest
  5. English todaysheenest

From Middle English shenest, from Old English sċēnost, sċȳnost, sċēonost, sċīenost, from Proto-Germanic *skaunistaz, superlative of Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“shiny; beautiful”), equivalent to sheen + -est (superlative suffix).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*skauniz all →

sheen

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.