babin

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Arifama-Miniafia

Noun

babin

  1. woman

Further reading

  • David Wakefield, Grammar Notes on Arifama-Miniafia (available: 2011, created: 1975)
  • David Wakefield, Miniafia Organised Phonology Data (available: 2011, created: 1992)
  • Stanley Oyabua, Alfred Urasabey (authors), Venessa Sogiri (facilitator), Tentative Grammar Description for the Miniafia-Oyan Language (2016)

Maranao

Noun

babin

  1. (sewing) bobbin

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babinъ. By surface analysis, baba +‎ -in. First attested in 1417.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /babi(ː)n/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /babin/

Adjective

babin

  1. (relational, attested in Greater Poland) grandmother's (belonging to a parent's mother)
    • 1974 [1417], Henryk Kowalewicz, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, editors, Wielkopolskie roty sądowe XIV-XV wieku, Roty kaliskie, volume IV, number 559, Kalisz:
      Yako tho szwyadczø, ysz ye wydzers[l]al dwanaczcze lath w mirze w [p]ocoyw babyn posaag
      [Jako to świadczę, iż je wydzierż[l]ał dwanaćcie lat w mirze w [p]okoju babin posag]

Descendants

  • Middle Polish: babin
  • Silesian: babin

References

  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “babin”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish babin. By surface analysis, baba +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

Adjective

babin (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational, Middle Polish) midwife's
  2. (relational, Middle Polish) woman's

Further reading

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish babin. By surface analysis, baba +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈba.bin/
  • Rhymes: -abin
  • Syllabification: ba‧bin

Adjective

babin (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (relational) woman's

Further reading

  • Bogdan Kallus (2020) “babin”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki, IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN, page 234
  • Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “babin”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 32

Wandamen

Noun

babin

  1. woman

References