binn

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English

Noun

binn (plural binns)

  1. Archaic spelling of bin (“storage container for wine, etc.”).
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:
      Mr. Tulkinghorn sits at one of the open windows, enjoying a bottle of old port. Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless binn of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”), from Proto-Celtic *bandis (“harmonious, melodious”), probably related to etymology 2 (“peak, summit”).

Adjective

binn (genitive singular masculine binn, genitive singular feminine binne, plural binne, comparative binne)

  1. (of music) sweet, melodious, harmonious
Declension
Declension of binn
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative binn bhinn binne;
bhinne²
Vocative bhinn binne
Genitive binne binne binn
Dative binn;
bhinn¹ 		bhinn binne;
bhinne²
Comparative níos binne
Superlative is binne

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish benn, from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”).

Noun

binn f (genitive singular binne, nominative plural beanna)

  1. peak, tip, summit (of a mountain or hill)
  2. (architecture) corner, gable
  3. pinnacle
  4. horn
  5. (figuratively) stanza, couplet
Declension
Declension of binn

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative binn beanna
Vocative a bhinn a bheanna
Genitive binne beann
Dative binn beanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhinn na beanna
Genitive na binne na mbeann
Dative leis an mbinn

don bhinn

leis na beanna
Derived terms
Related terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
binn bhinn mbinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 55
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bandi, *bando-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
  5. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “benn (‘peak; horn’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old English

Etymology

From a Celtic language, probably Gaulish benna (“cart, carriage”).

Pronunciation

Noun

binn f

  1. stall

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”), from Proto-Celtic *bandis (“harmonious, melodious”), probably related to Irish binn (“peak, summit”).

Adjective

binn (comparative binne)

  1. melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet
    èist ri òran binn nan eun ― listen to the sweet song of the birds
  2. shrill
  3. harmonious

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *bendi, *benni, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), see also Sanskrit भान (bhāna, “evidence”), English ban (“public proclamation, edict”).

Noun

binn f (genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

  1. (law) sentence, judgement, verdict, decision, condemnation
  2. fate
  3. melody
  4. hopper of a mill

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
binn bhinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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