中英語のskeyne, bundle, strandから。おそらくPIE*skend, to separate, from PIE*seg, to cut, to cleave, 語源的にはsegment, sectionと同じ。
英語の語源
skein (n.)
"fixed quantity of yarn doubled over and over and knotted, mid-15c., from Middle French escaigne "a hank of yarn" (Old French escagne, mid-14c., Modern French écagne), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin scagna "a skein," Irish sgainne "a skein, clue."
例文
1. Doctors discovered the hematoma by using a special computer X-ray called a "ket- skein ".
医師たちは「銅束」(ket- skein )という特別なコンピュータx光機を使用し、脳血腫の正確な位置を検出した。This skein of wool won 't disentangle.
この毛糸は解けない。
3.The packaging varies from DIN 160 size to wooden skein reels.
包装仕様は、DIN 160内の寸法から木質ブッシュ軸.
4.Correlation is negative at the 0.05 level with Filament size and Skein ratio.
ゴム含有率と伸び率と繭糸繊度が0.5のレベルで持つ負の相関性.
5.A skein of duck came across,gabbling softly to themselves.