SH-N-H – ‘cycles of transmutation’

8141. shaneh, shaw-neh´; (in plural), or (feminine) shanah, shaw-naw´; from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)

8138. shanah, shaw-naw´; a primitive root; to fold, i.e. duplicate (literally or figuratively); by implication, to transmute (transitive or intransitive).