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Pronunciation

  • (stressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) enPR: ĭn, IPA(key): /ɪn/
    • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɘn/
  • (unstressed)
    • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭn, IPA(key): /ɪn/
    • (General American, Canada, General Australian) enPR: ən, IPA(key): /ən/
    • (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɘn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: inn

Etymology 1

Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.

Alternative forms

  • i' (colloquial, poetic)

Preposition

in

  1. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
    1. Contained by.
    2. Within the bounds or limits of.
    3. Surrounded by; among; amidst.
    5. Wearing (an item of clothing).
      I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
    6. Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
    8. During (a period of time).
    10. Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
    12. At the end of (a period of time).
    13. (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
  2. Into.
  3. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      In returning to the vault, I had no very sure purpose in mind; only a vague surmise that this finding of Blackbeard's coffin would somehow lead to the finding of his treasure.
    1. Indicating an order or arrangement.
    3. Denoting a state of the subject.
    4. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
    6. Pertaining to; with regard to.
  4. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
    1. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
      Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
      • 2014, Carla Bethmann, Clean, Friendly, Profitable?: Tourism, page 114:
        […] tourists sometimes attempt to pay in euros or British pounds.
    2. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Hyponyms
  • in-memory
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

See in/translations § Preposition.

Verb

in (third-person singular simple present ins, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.

Adverb

in (not comparable)

  1. At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
  2. Towards the speaker or other reference point.
    They flew in from London last night.
    For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.
  3. So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
    Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.
  4. After the beginning of something.
    The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
  5. (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
    sing-in, pray-in, hug-in; see also be-in, love-in, sit-in, teach-in.
Translations

Noun

in (plural ins)

  1. A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
    Antonym: out
    • 1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World (page 192)
      This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
  3. (sports) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
  4. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
Antonyms
  • out
Translations

Adjective

in (comparative more in, superlative most in)

  1. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
  2. (not comparable) Located inside something.
    Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.
  3. (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
    If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.
  4. Inserted or fitted into something.
  5. Having been collected or received.
    The replies to the questionnaires are now all in.
  6. In fashion; popular.
  7. Incoming.
  8. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
  9. Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
    You can't get round the headland when the tide's in.
  10. (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
  11. (cricket) Currently batting.
  12. Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
    He is very in with the Joneses.
  13. (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
    I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

in (plural ins or in)

  1. Abbreviation of inch; inches.

References

  • Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Anagrams

  • N.I., NI, ni

Abinomn

Pronoun

in

  1. he; she

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch in, from Middle Dutch in, from Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ən/

Adverb

in

  1. in; inside; within

Preposition

in

  1. in
  2. into

Derived terms

  • daarin
  • hierin
  • innie

Akkadian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Preposition

in

  1. Alternative form of ina (“in, on, at”)

Ayomán

Noun

in

  1. water

References

  • Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Baure

Noun

in

  1. water

References

  • Swintha Danielsen, Baure: An Arawak Language of Bolivia

Chamorro

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Pronoun

in

  1. we (exclusive)

Usage notes

  • in is used solely as a subject of a transitive verb, while ham is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or an object of a transitive verb.

See also

References

  • Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar‎[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Chinese

Chuukese

Noun

in

  1. mother

Cimbrian

Etymology 1

From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”).

Preposition

in

  1. (Luserna, + dative) in

Alternative forms

  • inn (Sette Comuni)

Etymology 2

From Middle High German in, from Old High German inan, from Proto-Germanic *inǭ

Pronoun

in

  1. (Sette Comuni) accusative of èar: him
Alternative forms
  • en

See also

Etymology 3

Article

in

  1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) the; definite article for two declensions:
    1. accusative singular masculine
    2. dative plural

See also

References

  • “in” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
  • “in” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Classical Nahuatl

Article

in

  1. the

Pronoun

in, īn

  1. (demonstrative) this; these

Related terms

  • on

Derived terms

  • inin
  • inon

References

  • Michel Launey; Christopher Mackay (2011) An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Amazon Kindle: Cambridge University Press, pages Loc 1408

Danish

Adjective

in (neuter in, plural and definite singular attributive in)

  1. (colloquial) fashionable, in

Antonyms

  • yt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch in, from Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪn/
  • Hyphenation: in
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Adverb

in

  1. in, inside
  2. (postpositional) into

Preposition

in

  1. in (expressing containment)

Inflection

Synonyms

  • binnen

Antonyms

  • uit
  • buiten

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: in

Derived terms

Adjective

in (used only predicatively, not comparable)

  1. in style

Verb

in

  1. first-person singular present indicative of innen
  2. imperative of innen

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin inde (“thence”). Cognate with Catalan en, French en, Italian ne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/
  • Hyphenation: in

Pronoun

in (adverbial)

  1. (genitive case) of it, of them
  2. (genitive case) about it, about them
  3. (ablative case) from here

Alternative forms

  • Becomes n- before a vowel (proclitic).
  • Becomes -en when acting as an enclitic (after a consonant).
  • Becomes -n when acting as an enclitic (after a vowel).

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈin/, [ˈin]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: in

Adjective

in

  1. (colloquial) in, popular (in fashion)

Antonyms

  • out

Anagrams

  • -ni

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin in.

Preposition

in

  1. in

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔɪn/

Etymology 1

From Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Preposition

in

  1. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building)
  2. (with dative) in (pertaining to)
  3. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)
  4. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of))
Usage notes

The preposition in is used with the accusative case if the verb shows movement from one place to another, whereas it is used with the dative case if the verb shows location.

Derived terms
  • (in + dem) im m or n
  • (in + das) ins n
  • in der Zwickmühle stecken

Etymology 2

Contraction

in

  1. (dated) Contraction of in den.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English in.

Adjective

in (not comparable)

  1. in, popular (in fashion)
Declension

Further reading

  • “in” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “in”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Gothic

Romanization

in

  1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽

Interlingua

Preposition

in

  1. in

Irish

Preposition

in (plus dative, triggers eclipsis)

  1. Alternative form of i

Usage notes

This variant of i is used before vowel-initial words, before bhur (“your pl”), before dhá (“two”), before titles of books, films, and the like, and before foreign words that resist mutation.

In older texts, the n is spelled together with a vowel-initial word (e.g. i n-aice le instead of modern in aice le (“beside”) and i nÉirinn or i n-Éirinn instead of modern in Éirinn (“in Ireland”). Also in older texts, in bhur may be spelled i nbhur.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin in.

Preposition

in

  1. in; on
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 99:
      Cume li va puleîto in alto mare!
      How they row well on the high seas!

Italian

Etymology

From Latin in..

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈin/

Preposition

in

  1. in
  2. to
  3. into
  4. by
  5. on
  6. Marker of way or manner.

Usage notes

  • When followed by the definite article, in is combined with the article to produce the following combined forms:

Anagrams

  • ni, nì

Japanese

Romanization

in

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いん

Ladin

Preposition

in

  1. in

Latin

Alternative forms

  • en, endo, indu (ante-classical)

Etymology

From earlier en, from Proto-Italic *en, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /in/, [ɪn]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in/, [in]

Preposition

in (+ ablative), in (+ accusative)

  1. (+ ablative) in, at, on, upon, from (space)
    • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
      omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
      et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
      in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt
      So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
      whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
      collapse into the frenzies and the fire.
    • Seneca
      venenum in auro bibitur
      Poison is drunk from a gold cup.
  2. (+ ablative) under, within, in
  3. (+ ablative) during, within, while in (time)
  4. (+ accusative) into, to
    • 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III
      omne adeo genvs in terris hominvmqve ferarvmqve
      et genvs æqvorevm pecvdes pictæqve volvcres
      in fvrias ignemqve rvvnt
      So far does every species on earth of man and beast,
      whether the aquatic species, livestock, or painted-winged,
      collapse into the frenzies and the fire.
  5. (+ accusative) toward, towards, against, at
  6. (+ accusative) until, for
  7. (+ accusative) about
  8. (+ accusative) according to

Antonyms

  • ex

Derived terms

Descendants

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:in.

Ligurian

Etymology 1

From Latin in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iŋ/

Preposition

in

  1. in
Synonyms
  • inte

Etymology 2

With iotacism, from un (“a, an”, indefinite article).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Article

in

  1. a, an (male)
Usage notes
  • This form is found:
    • in sentence-initial position, or after a punctuation mark
    • after words ending in /ŋ/

Mapudungun

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈin]

Verb

in (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. To eat.
  2. first-person singular realis form of in

See also

  • kofketun
  • ilotun

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Marshallese

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [inʲ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /jinʲ/
  • Bender phonemes: {yin}

Etymology 1

Preposition

in

  1. to

Etymology 2

Noun

in

  1. grass skirt

Synonyms

  • ōr

Etymology 3

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

Pronoun

in

  1. this (thing close to us both)
  2. demonstrative, first person inclusive singular

Etymology 4

Alternative forms

  • -in

Preposition

in

  1. of
  2. from
  3. for

References

  • Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Preposition

in [+accusative or dative]

  1. in, inside, within
  2. into
  3. within (a time period)
  4. in (a condition)
Descendants
  • Dutch: in
    • Afrikaans: in
  • Limburgish: in

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Contraction

in

  1. Contraction of ic ne.

Further reading

  • “in”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “in (VI)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page VI

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English inn.

Alternative forms

  • inn, inne, ine, yn, ynne

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Noun

in (plural innes)

  2. Any kind of accomodation; particularly:
    1. A holiday home or guesthouse; a house set up as accomodation.
    2. An inn or hostel; a building with multiple rooms to let.
    3. A camp used by an army; barracks.
  3. A home or house; habitation or housing one lives in.
  4. A dormitory; housing for students.
Descendants
  • English: inn
  • Scots: inn
References
  • “in, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-02.

Etymology 2

From Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.

Alternative forms

  • ine, i, yn, yne, en, i, an, y

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/, /iː/, /i/, /ən/

Preposition

in

  2. in; with the following special senses:
    1. in, inside; encircled or confined by, with the following special senses:
      1. inside, within (a text or document)
      2. inside, within (one's mind)
      3. inside, in, indoors of.
      4. amongst, in a crowd of.
    2. wearing, having on, clad in
    3. in a quality or mode: with the following special senses:
      1. affected by, under the influence of.
      2. held by someone, in someone's grasp
      3. owned by someone, in someone's control
    4. inside, at or on a location or place.
    5. secured with; bound with
    6. in the midst of, while, currently doing
    7. in (pieces or portions), into.
    8. about; of, on the matter of.
  3. in the form, way, or manner of.
  4. on, above, on top of.
  5. facing at, in the direction of.
  6. Being one of a set or group.
  7. Being owned by; in one's possession.
  8. due to, as, for the reason that.
  9. versus; in conflict with; fighting with.
  10. using, utilising, with the means of.
  11. (rare) with, in the company of.
Usage notes

in is usually postpositive in Middle English. For example, the previous sentence would be in is after þe noun lome Middel Englisch in.

Related terms
Descendants
  • English: in
  • Scots: in, i, i'
  • Yola: eee, ing
References
  • “in, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English inne, from Proto-Germanic *inna.

Alternative forms

  • inne, yne, yn, hyn

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Adverb

in

  2. in; with the following special senses:
    1. in, inside; encircled or confined by.
    2. inside, in, in the centre of.
    3. in a quality or mode.
  3. in towards, in the direction of.
  4. on, on top of; above
  5. using, utilising, with the means of.
Descendants
  • English: in
  • Scots: in
References
  • “in, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 4

Pronoun

in

  1. Alternative form of hine

Min Nan

Mohegan-Pequot

Noun

in

  1. man (adult male)

References

  • A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈin/

Verb

in

  1. first-person singular present of ii

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • inn (adjective)

Etymology

From English in

Adjective

in (singular and plural in)

  1. popular

References

  • “in” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ni

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • inn (adjective)

Etymology

From English in

Adjective

in (singular and plural in)

  1. popular

References

  • “in” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • ni

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Preposition

in (Anglian)

  1. in
Synonyms
  • on
Derived terms
  • inlīċ
  • inlīċe
Descendants
  • Middle English: in
    • English: in
    • Scots: in

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

Adverb

in

  1. Alternative form of inn

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *in.

Preposition

in

  1. in

Descendants

  • Middle High German: in
    • Bavarian: i
      Cimbrian: inn, in
    • Central Franconian: en, ön, on
    • German: in
    • Luxembourgish: an
    • Rhine Franconian: in, en
      • Pennsylvania German: in
    • Yiddish: אין‎ (in)

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *sindos (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“this”); weak doublet of sin (“this”).

Article

in

  1. the (masculine singular nominative/accusative; feminine singular accusative; masculine/feminine/neuter dual nominative/accusative/genitive)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13d7
      Beóigidir in spirut in corp in ḟect so.
      "The spirit now quickens the body."
  2. Alternative spelling of ind
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13d7
      Beóigidir in spirut in corp in ḟect so.
      "The spirit now quickens the body."
Usage notes
  • Triggers nasalization of the following noun in the masculine and feminine singular accusative.
  • Triggers lenition of the following noun as an alternative spelling of ind.
Declension
Synonyms
  • int (masculine singular nominative, used before a vowel)
Derived terms
  • insin
  • inso
Descendants
  • Irish: an
  • Scottish Gaelic: an
  • Manx: yn

Etymology 2

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

Particle

in (triggers eclipsis))

  1. interrogative particle forming yes-no questions
Derived terms
  • duús in

Verb

in (triggers eclipsis)

  1. third-person singular present indicative interrogative of is: is...?

Etymology 3

Preposition

in

  1. Alternative form of i (“in”) (often before cach, cech (“each, every”) and for (“your pl”))

Etymology 4

Probably originally the masculine/neuter dative singular of the definite article (see Etymology 1); compare Middle Welsh and Welsh yn.

Particle

in

  1. Used with the masculine/neuter dative singular of an adjective to form the corresponding adverb: -ly
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30a3

References

Old Norse

Article

in

  1. inflection of inn:
    1. feminine nominative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative plural

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *in.

Preposition

in

  1. in

Pennsylvania German

Preposition

in

  1. in

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin in (“in”). Doublet of em.

Preposition

in

  1. found in the given reference
Related terms
  • em

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English in.

Adjective

in (invariable, comparable)

  1. in fashion
Synonyms
  • na moda

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin līnum (“flax”).

Noun

in n (plural inuri)

  1. flax

Declension

Related terms

  • inar
  • ie

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • egn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
  • ün (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin ūnus.

Article

in m (feminine ina)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) a, an

Number

in m (feminine ina)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) one

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Preposition

in

  1. in, into

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *i.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in/

Conjunction

in

  1. and

Synonyms

  • i (dialectal)

Sumerian

Romanization

in

  1. Romanization of 𒅔 (in)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪn/

Adverb

in

  1. into, the direction "from out to in"

Antonyms

  • ut

See also

  • inne

Anagrams

  • ni

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *in (“lair, burrow”). Cognate with Kazakh ін (in).

Noun

in (definite accusative ini, plural inler)

  1. lair, den, burrow
  2. cave

Declension

Verb

in

  1. second-person singular imperative of inmek

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔin˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔin˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɨn˧˧]

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 印 (“to print”, SV: ấn).

Verb

in

  1. to print

Derived terms

  • máy in (“printer”)
  • in ấn (“printing”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

in

  1. (only in compounds) perfectly fitted
Derived terms

Volapük

Preposition

in

  1. in

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • i ni, inni

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪn/

Pronoun

in

  1. (literary) first-person plural of i

West Frisian

Etymology

Shortened from ien (“one”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ən/

Determiner

in

  1. a, an; indefinite article

Further reading

  • “in (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (mid-tone): IPA(key): /ĩ̄/
  • (high-tone): IPA(key): /ĩ́/

Pronoun

in

  1. him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a high-tone /ĩ/)

Pronoun

ín

  1. him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /ĩ/)

See also

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in˧˥/

Noun

ín

  1. house

Derived terms

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to take in e.g. harvest.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)