egin

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *e-gin-i, possibly related to Iberian *ekien.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /eɡin/
• Rhymes: -eɡin
• Hyphenation: e‧gin

Verb

egin da/du/zaio (imperfect participle egiten, future participle egingo or eginen, short form egin, verbal noun egite)

1. (du) to do
   1. to do, make, create, produce
   2. to cook
   3. to pass (time)

      Sei hilabete egin nituen basamortuan. ― I spent six months in the desert. (literally, “I did six months in the desert.”)

   4. to turn a certain age

      Bihar 30 urte egingo ditu. ― He/she'll be 30 tomorrow. (literally, “He/she'll do 30 years tomorrow.”)

   5. to speak (a language)

      Egin dezagun ingelesez. ― Let's speak English.

   6. to play (a game)

   kartetan egin ― to play cards (literally, “to do in cards”)

   1. to turn
   2. (with dezagun only) let's suppose
2. (da, du) to become, to turn into
3. (da) to get accustomed to
4. (zaio) to seem, to look
5. (auxiliary) Used as a light verb to allow nouns to function as verbs. The resulting verbs usually take transitive auxiliaries, even when translated by intransitive verbs.

   hitz egin ― to speak (literally, “to do word”)

6. (auxiliary) Used as an verbal intensifier.

   Etorri egin zara azkenean. ― You did come at last.

7. (auxiliary, pro-verb) Refers back to a previous verb.

Usage notes

• The synthetic verbal forms are not archaic, but periphrastic forms with an auxiliary are more common.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Further reading

• "egin" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
• “egin” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Faroese

Adjective

egin

1. own

Usage notes

• egið forlag (“self-published”)

Declension

Derived terms

• eginleiki

Related terms

• eiga (to own)

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish éicen (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; necessitousness”).

Noun

egin m

1. force

   er egin hene ― by sheer force

   egin ny tarraghtyn ― force of the circumstances

2. rape

   egin ny Sabeenee ― the Rape of the Sabines

Derived terms

• shegin (“to have to”)

Welsh

Etymology

Proto-Celtic *akīnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *-iHnos.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡɪn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeːɡɪn/, /ˈɛɡɪn/

Noun

egin m (collective, singulative eginyn)

1. shoots, sprouts, buds
2. stubs
3. beginnings
4. offspring, progeny

Derived terms

• egin ffa (“beansprouts”)
• egino (“to sprout, to germinate”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “egin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies