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shilling

noun
/ˈʃɪlɪŋ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH-der. Proto-Germanic *skiljaną Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz Proto-Germanic *skillingaz Old English sċilling Middle English schilling English shilling From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling. Compare typologically Russian рубль (rublʹ) (akin to руби́ть (rubítʹ)), полти́на (poltína), полти́нник (poltínnik) (akin to Proto-Slavic *tęti).

  1. inherited from *skillingaz✻
  2. inherited from sċilling
  3. inherited from schilling

Definitions

  1. A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and…

    A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.

  2. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

  3. A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.

    2. Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth…

      Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.

      • The smaller silver coins of Europe, such as the solidus or German shilling, the mark, and others never found their way east in any quantity on account of their small size and value.

    3. Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth…

      Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.

      • And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling.

    4. present participle and gerund of shill

    5. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

King's shilling, look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence, poor man's shilling, Queen's shilling, shillingless, shilling mark, shilling shocker, shilling sign, shillingsworth, shillingworth, take the shilling, tenpence to the shilling, the full shilling

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shilling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at shilling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at shilling

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA