scienost

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skaunistaz, superlative of *skauniz.

Alternative forms

  • sċēnost, sċȳnost, sċēonost

Adjective

sċīenost

  1. superlative degree of sċīene
Descendants
  • Middle English: shenest

References

  • scíne in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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