An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Schinnen
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Schinnen, plural, ‘dandruff, scurf,’ Modern High German only, from Middle German and Low German; connected with the cognates discussed under schinden; literally ‘that which comes off in scales from the skin of the head’; hence allied to Old Icelandic skinn (from *skinþ), ‘skin’?.