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Irish
Verb
bain as (present analytic baineann as, future analytic bainfidh as, verbal noun baint as, past participle bainte as)
- to take from, get from, to get out of
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 60:ə wuəl tū n fȧr ūd? wuələs; wȧn šē asm̥ ē.- [An bhuail tú an fear úd? Bhuaileas; bhain sé asam é.]
- Did you hit that man? I did; he got it out of me .
- to tease, egg on, pull someone's leg
1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 108:Bíonn Ruairí ag baint astu uilig.- Ruairí is teasing them all.
- to draw out, prolong
- to make off
- to gut (of fish)
- to draw (of fowl)
- to castrate (of animal)
Conjugation
conjugation of
bain as: see
bain