Sheen
early 17th century: from obsolete sheen ‘beautiful, resplendent’; apparently related to the verb shine.
wiktionary
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene(“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz(“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Cognate with Scots schene, scheine(“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen(“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin(“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon(“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön(“beautiful”), Danish skøn(“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn(“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn(“beautiful”), Swedish skön(“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis(“beautiful”). See also English show.
sheen (plural sheens)
etymonline
sheen (n.)
"shining, brightness," 1602 (first attested in "Hamlet" iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene "beautiful, bright," from Old English scene, sciene "beautiful; bright, brilliant," from Proto-Germanic *skauniz "conspicuous" (source also of Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German schön "fair, beautiful;" Gothic skaunjai "beautiful"), from PIE root *keu- "to see, observe, perceive." It is related to show (v.).
Meaning "film of oil on water" is from 1970. As an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman's name, or as a noun, "fair one, beautiful woman."
