Zinn

Borrowed from German Zinn.

Zinn

1. A surname from German.
   • 2025 September 10, Paighten Harkins and Sean P. Means, “George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’”, in The Salt Lake Tribune‎^[1]:

     Often, Gill said, Zinn was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. He said Zinn was politically conservative, leaning libertarian, and would “give me a hard time for being a Dem.”

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsɪn/

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From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin. Cognate with English tin.

Zinn n (strong, genitive Zinnes or Zinns, no plural)

1. tin

• (Chemical Element): Previous: Indium. Next: Antimon

• zinnen

• Zinnbecher, Zinnblech, Zinngefäß, Zinnkanne, Zinnsalz, Zinnsoldat
• Lötzinn

Zinn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zinns or (with an article) Zinn, feminine genitive Zinn, plural Zinns)

1. a surname

• Translingual: Zinnia

• “Zinn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Zinn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Zinn” in Duden online
• Zinn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sin/

Zinn n

1. tin

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Zinn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch