English

hogskin

From hog + skin.

A compound of hog + skin

Middle English hog ‘a pig or swine, especially one that is…’

English hog

Proto-Indo-European *sken- ‘to split off’

Proto-Germanic *skinþą ‘animal hide’

Old Norse skinn ‘animal hide’

Old English scinn ‘a skin’

Middle English skyn ‘a hide’

English skin

Today it means

noun Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.

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