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c.1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:
The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]
1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, volume 1, page 273:
His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
1879 December 31, “Obituary”, in The Hobart Mercury, page 2:
On December 28, in the same year , he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI,
From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.
1605, Richard Verstegan, Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, in Antiquities: Concerning the Most Noble, and Renowned English Nation:
[…]for pronouncing according as one would ſay at London I would eat more cheeſe if I had it, the Northern man ſaith, Ay ſuld eat mare cheeſe gin ay hadet, and the Weſterne man ſaith Chud eat more cheeſe an chad it.
1804, Robert Couper, Poetry, I. 196:
Gin the plough rests on the bank, / The loom, the nation, dies.
1809, Thomas Donaldson, Poems, section 76:
An' gin I'm weel and can keep sober / You may look for it in October.
1815, Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland dialect, page 152:
He's get han' and siller, / Gin he fancies me.
1860, J. P. K. Shuttleworth, Scarsdale; Or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border, Thirty Years Ago, page 158:
yon felley at Barleigh has wrote farrantly (fairly) to my naunt; gin Robin could bur see ť letter he'd foind no fawt wi' me.
1870, John Christopher Atkinson, Lost; or, What came of a slip from 'honour bright'., page 19:
Wheeah, Ah thinks thee could, gin ye tried.
1876, Mrs. George Linnaeus Banks, The Manchester Man, page 15:
"Aw'd never ha slept i' mi bed gin that little un had bin dreawnded, an' me lookin' on loike a stump. Neay; that lass wur Bess, moi wench. We'n no notion wheer th' lad's mother is." Mr. Clough would have pressed the money upon him, but he put it back with a motion of his han.
1880, Wooers, Banks, I. iv:
[…]gin schoo sets off in a tantrum an' flaah's t'mistress wiv her blutherin […]
“gin”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-04-05
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Gin A war ye, A wad gang. ― If I were you, I would go.
1778, Alexander Ross, Fortunate Shepherdess, page 124:
Then says the squire, Gin that be all your fear, She sanna want a man, for want of gear. A thousand pounds a year, well burthen free, I mak her sure of, gin she'll gang with me.
^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 216
Further reading
Edward Dwelly (1911) “gin”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
1927, “THE FORTH MAN'S GRACE AFTER A SCANTY DINNER”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 137, line 3:
Gin we have no mo' maate, it maakes no mo' matter,
References
Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 137