Japanese
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of しね – see the following entry.
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| (This term, しね (shine), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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Etymology 2
Only found in old compounds. The medial -s- may represent epenthesis between two vowels, or it may be cognate with Korean interfix -ㅅ- (-s-) used to mark possession, much like English -'s. See also 小雨 (kosame, “drizzle”) and 春雨 (harusame, “spring rain”).
Noun
しね • (shine)
- suffixal bound form of いね (ine, “rice plant”)
Derived terms
- 荒稲 (arashine)
- 粳稲 (urushine)
- 搗ち稲 (kachishine)
- 奠稲 (kumashine)
- 褻稲, 食稲 (keshine)
- 税稲 (chikarashine)
- 十握稲 (totsukashine)
- 新稲 (niishine)
- 和稲 (nikishine), 和稲 (nikoshine)
- 野稲 (noshine)
- 残り稲 (nokorishine)
- 花稲 (hanashine)
- 御稲 (mishine)
- 八百稲 (yaoshine)