Synonyme
anger,
covetousness,
crime,
damnation,
debt,
deficiency,
demerit,
disobedience,
envy,
error,
evil,
evil-doing,
fault,
gluttony,
guiltEtymologie
[ 'sin ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Old English synn, from Proto-Germanic *sunthi-/Proto-Germanic *sundjo,
probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”), cognate to is.“” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 Cognates include West Frisian sûnde (“sin”), Old Norse synd, Old High German sunta, Danish synd, and German Sünde, among many others.