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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
aino (accusative singular ainon, plural ainoj, accusative plural ainojn)
- Ainu (one of the Ainu people of northern Japan)
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
aino
- Alternative form of ainu (“Ainu”)
Declension
Further reading
Etymology 2
Variant of ainoa.
Adjective
aino (not comparable, indeclinable, only used attributively) (archaic, poetic)
- only, sole
- 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 12:25-28:
Ahti poika, aino poika, / Itse lieto Lemminkäinen, / Tuosta suuttui, tuosta syäntyi, / Tuosta viikoksi vihastui.- Ahti lad, the only son, / He himself, lithe Lemminkäinen, / Was dumbfounded and so angry / That for long he brooded on it.
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Univerbation of a + i + no.
Pronunciation
Particle
aino
- (Przemyśl, Kielce) Synonym of tak (“yes”)
Further reading
- Aleksander Saloni (1908) “aino”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332
- Władysław Siarkowski (1878) “aino”, in “Materiały do etnografii ludu polskiego z okolic Kielc”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowej (in Polish), volume 2, chapter 3, Krakow: Komisyja Antropologiczna Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, page 244
- Jan Łoś (1886) “a jino”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 184
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
aino (feminine aina, masculine plural ainos, feminine plural ainas)
- Ainu (pertaining to ethnic group or language)
Noun
aino m (uncountable)
- Ainu (language)