instrument de la famille des cuivres en bois ou en corne ayant la particularité de posséder comme le serpent et l'ophicléide des trous, très populaire durant la Renaissance.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntsder. Proto-Germanic *tindaz Old High German zint? Old High German zinko Middle High German zinke German Zinke? German Zinkbor. Polish cynk Borrowed from German Zink. Doublet of cynek.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntsder. Proto-Germanic *tindaz Old High German zint? Old High German zinko Middle High German zinke German Zinke? German Zinkbor. Latin zincum Borrowed from German Zink.
Probably related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Old High German zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *tind, from Proto-Germanic *tinduz, *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”). Cognate with Dutch tinne (“battlement”), German Zinne (“pinnacle, battlement”), Danish tinde (“pinnacle, battlement”), Swedish tinne (“tooth of a rake”), Icelandic…