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1955 British shilling coin

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

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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).

shilling (plural shillings)

  1. (historical) 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.
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
      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. (US, historical) A currency in the United States, differing in value between states.
  4. (US, historical, New York and some other states) The Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.
  5. (historical) Alternative form of schilling, a coin formerly used in Germany and German states, worth twelve pfennig.
    • 1909, United States Bureau of the Mint, “Annual Report of the Director of the Mint”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1], page 281:
      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. (historical) Alternative form of skilling, a coin formerly used in Denmark, Norway or Sweden, worth twelve penning.
    • 2013, Selena Axelro Winsnes, A Danish Jew in West Africa: Wulff Joseph Wulff, Biography and Letters 1836-1842, pages 186-187:
      And without that profit an employee with my salary can make only a poor living and not be able to save one Danish shilling.

Abbreviations

In East Africa, the names of the currencies usually use the proper noun for the country, not its adjectival form: "Kenya shilling", "Tanzania shilling", etc. Amounts are written with a solidus, probably from the UK usage: "2/50" is 2 shillings, 50 cents (not pence); 30 shillings only is written "30/=".

former coin

currency

See shill.

shilling

  1. present participle and gerund of shill

shilling m (plural shillings)

  1. shilling (old UK coin)

shilling

  1. alternative form of schilling

Borrowed from English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

shilling m (definite singular shillingen, indefinite plural **shilling, definite plural shillingene)

  1. (numismatics, also historical) a shilling

From English shilling, from Middle English shilling, Old English sċilling, and ultimately Proto-Germanic *skillingaz. Doublet of schilling and skilling.

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shilling m (plural shillingen)

  1. (historical, numismatics) a shilling
  2. a shilling: the currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

shilling c

  1. (historical) a shilling (English coin)
  2. shilling (currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda)