shin
'the large bone of the leg, front of the lower part of the leg’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. scinu, scyne, schene, schin < M.E. shin < O.E. scinu ‘fore part of the leg below the knee; shinbone’ < Proto-G. skino ‘thin piece’ < O.H.G. scina ‘shin’ < G. schienbein ‘shin, shinbones’ < shin < skei- < Tamil kappu