shilling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/    美 /ˈʃɪlɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. historical
    — A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
  2. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
  3. A currency in the United States, differing in value between states. US,historical
  4. The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar. US,historical
  5. Alternative form of schilling, a coin formerly used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig. alt-of,alternative,historical
    — 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.
  6. Alternative form of skilling, a coin formerly used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning. alt-of,alternative,historical
    — And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of shill form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

shillings plural

词汇关系

近义词
bob generalise gen hog Abraham's willing deener
衍生词
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
相关词
schilling skilding skilling solidus

词源

词源 1
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
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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).
词源 2
See shill.
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