Borrowed from Swedish pinne. Meaning "pin" (in electronics) is a semantic loan from English pin.
pinni
Inflection of pinni (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | pinni | pinnit | ||
genitive | pinnin | pinnien | ||
partitive | pinniä | pinnejä | ||
illative | pinniin | pinneihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | pinni | pinnit | ||
accusative | nom. | pinni | pinnit | |
gen. | pinnin | |||
genitive | pinnin | pinnien | ||
partitive | pinniä | pinnejä | ||
inessive | pinnissä | pinneissä | ||
elative | pinnistä | pinneistä | ||
illative | pinniin | pinneihin | ||
adessive | pinnillä | pinneillä | ||
ablative | pinniltä | pinneiltä | ||
allative | pinnille | pinneille | ||
essive | pinninä | pinneinä | ||
translative | pinniksi | pinneiksi | ||
abessive | pinnittä | pinneittä | ||
instructive | — | pinnein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
pinni
From late Old Norse pinni, from Middle Low German pinne, from Old Saxon pinn (“pin; peg”), from Proto-Germanic *pinn- (“pointed object; spike; peak”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Cognate with English pin.
pinni m (genitive singular pinna, nominative plural pinnar)