beinn

From Old Norse beinn, from Proto-Germanic *bainaz.

• IPA^(key): /peitn/
• Rhymes: -eitn

beinn (comparative beinni, superlative beinastur)

1. straight, right

   Maðurinn stendur beinn.

   The man stands straight.

2. (television) live

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲein̠ʲ/^[1]

beinn

1. first-person singular past subjunctive of bí

From Old Irish benn (“peak, point, prong, pinnacle”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”).

beinn m (genitive singular beinnee, plural beinnyn or binn)

1. mountain

   Synonyms: muyne, slieau

2. ben
3. summit, pinnacle, apex

   Synonyms: ard-veinn, baare, mullagh

4. tine of deer

• ·beind

·beinn

1. inflection of at·tá:
   1. first-person singular conditional
   2. first-person singular past subjunctive

From Proto-Germanic *bainaz.

beinn (comparative beinari, superlative beinastr)

1. straight, right
   • Kormákr Ǫgmundarson, Sigurðardrápa stanza 3:

     Eykr með ennidúki · jarðhljótr día fjarðar
     breyti, hún sás beinan · bindr;

     The land-recipient (RULER) who secures the straight mast endows the plower of the firth of the gods (POET) with a headband.

2. hospitable

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From bein n (“bone, leg”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą, also from *bainaz.

beinn

1. (in compounds) -legged

• berbeinn (“bare-legged”)
• digrbeinn (“thick-legged”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “beinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 46; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857

1. page/46 Internet Archive]

From Old Irish benn (“peak, point, pinnacle”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”). Doublet of beann.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /b̥ẽĩɲ/^[2],
• (Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /b̥eiɲ/^[3][4]
• (Skye) IPA^(key): /b̥ɤiɲ/^[5]
• (Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /b̥ĩːɲ/^[6]

beinn f (genitive singular beinne, plural beanntan)

1. mountain, hill

   Synonyms: monadh, sliabh

   mar an ceò thall air a' bheinn ― as the distant mist on the hill

2. pinnacle
3. bin
4. head, top, high place

• beinn-theine
• eigh-bheinn

• → Scots: ben

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “beinn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC