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Zinn
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English
Etymology
Proper noun
Zinn
- A surname from German.
- 2025 September 10, Paighten Harkins and Sean P. Means, “George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
- Often, Gill said, Zinn was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. He said Zinn was politically conservative, leaning libertarian, and would “give me a hard time for being a Dem.”
Derived terms
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German
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin. Cognate with English tin.
Noun
Zinn n (strong, genitive Zinnes or Zinns, no plural)
Declension
Declension of Zinn [sg-only, neuter, strong]
1Now rare, see notes.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
- Zinnbecher, Zinnblech, Zinngefäß, Zinnkanne, Zinnsalz, Zinnsoldat
- Lötzinn
See also
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Zinn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zinns or (with an article) Zinn, feminine genitive Zinn, plural Zinns)
- a surname
Descendants
- Translingual: Zinnia
Further reading
- “Zinn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Zinn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Zinn” in Duden online
Zinn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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Hunsrik
Etymology
From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin.
Pronunciation
Noun
Zinn n
See also
Further reading
- Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Zinn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
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