English

king skin

King skin comes from English skin ‘rolling paper’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 2012, Ian Marchant: “I did have some spliff, and I was thinking…”

Made of the words king + skin

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce’

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Proto-Germanic *kuningaz

Proto-West Germanic *kuning

Old English cening

Middle English king ‘king’

English king

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

Every English word from English skin

noun An extra large rolling paper, roughly double the length of a regular one.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.