English Explanatory Dictionary

shilling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  2. The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.
  3. A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
  4. The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
  5. Alternative form of schilling, a coin formely used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.
  6. Alternative form of skilling, a coin formely used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of shill
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈʃɪlɪŋ/ En-us-shilling.ogg

Word forms

shilling shillings

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).

Synonyms

bob generalise gen hog Abraham's willing deener

Related words

schilling skilding skilling solidus

Derived words

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

Translations

Afrikaans: sjieling Arabic: شِلِّن Asturian: xelín Bulgarian: шилинг Catalan: xíling Chinese Mandarin: 先令 Dutch: shilling Esperanto: ŝilingo Finnish: šillinki French: shilling Georgian: შილინგი German: Schilling Irish: scilling Italian: scellino Japanese: シリング Kazakh: шиллинг Korean: 실링 Malay: syiling Māori: heringi Polish: szyling Portuguese: xelim Romanian: șiling Russian: ши́ллинг Somali: shilin Spanish: chelín Swahili: shilingi Welsh: swllt
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