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4-letter words (1 found)

GINN,

3-letter words (3 found)

GIN,ING,INN,

2-letter words (2 found)

GI,IN,

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All 4 letters words made out of ginn

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Definitions and meaning of ginn

ginn

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪn/

Noun

ginn (plural ginns)

  1. Alternative spelling of jinn

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪn/

Verb

ginn

  1. Nonstandard form of given.

Anagrams

  • Gnin, Ning

Irish

Alternative forms

  • ging

Etymology

From Middle Irish gend (“wedge”), from Proto-Celtic *gendis (“wedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Welsh gaing (“chisel, wedge”), Breton genn (“wedge”) within Celtic and more distantly with Latin (pre)hendō and Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō).

Pronunciation

  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /ɟiːn̠ʲ/

Noun

ginn f (genitive singular ginne, nominative plural geanntracha)

  1. (Cois Fharraige) Synonym of ding (“wedge; thickset person”)

Declension

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “geinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 359
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “genn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ginn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡin/
  • Rhymes: -in

Etymology 1

From Middle High German geben, from Old High German geban, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną. Cognate with German geben, Dutch geven, West Frisian jaan, Danish give, Icelandic gefa.

The sense “to become” is found throughout Moselle Franconian and also (though less commonly) in Ripuarian. It can be understood as a generalization from expressions such as “wheat gives good bread” or “2 and 2 gives 4”. Compare German ergeben. Imagine also a sentence like et gëtt schéint Wieder (“there will be nice weather”), which was then turned around to d’Wieder gëtt schéin (“the wheather will be nice”). The first sentence corresponds to German es gibt schönes Wetter, but the second would be ungrammatical (*das Wetter gibt schön).

Verb

ginn (third-person singular present gëtt, preterite gouf or guff, past participle ginn, past subjunctive géif or giff, auxiliary verb hunn or sinn)

  1. (transitive) to give
  2. (impersonal) there be, there is, there are; used to indicate that something exists or is present
  3. (intransitive) to become
  4. (auxiliary) Used with the past participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice.
  5. (auxiliary) Used with the past participle of any verb to form the impersonal passive voice.
Usage notes
  • The perfect auxiliary is sinn for the sense “to become” and the passive auxiliary, otherwise hunn.
  • The sense “there be” has two possible and interchangeable constructions: (1.) with a direct object as in German: et gëtt hei vill Kanner (“there are a lot of children here”), or (2.) with a subject: et ginn hei vill Kanner. The difference is that the verb may become plural with the second construction.
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Etymology 2

Verb

ginn

  1. inflection of goen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person plural present indicative

Yagara

Noun

ginn

  1. girl

References

  • State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.

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