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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Irish rann.
Pronunciation
Noun
rann (plural ranns)
- A stanza of Irish poetry.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:Our greatest living phonetic expert (wild horses shall not drag it from us!) has left no stone unturned in his efforts to delucidate and compare the verse recited and has found it bears a striking resemblance (the italics are ours) to the ranns of ancient Celtic bards.
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸrasnā. Compare Welsh rhan; Breton rann; Old Irish rann (whence Irish rann, roinn, Scottish Gaelic rann, roinn).
Noun
rann m (plural rannow)
- part, section
- portion, share
Pronoun
rann
- some
Faroese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rann, from Proto-Germanic *razną.
Noun
rann n (genitive singular rans, plural rann)
- (poetic) house, home
Declension
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Singular
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Plural
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Nominative
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rann
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rannið
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rann
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rannini
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Accusative
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rann
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rannið
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rann
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rannini
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Dative
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ranni
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ranninum
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rannum
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rannunum
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Genitive
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rans
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ransins
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ranna
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rannanna
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Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
rann f (genitive singular rannar, plural rannir)
- (geology) a layer in a coal mine
Declension
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
rann
- first/third-person singular past of renna
German
Pronunciation
Verb
rann
- first/third-person singular preterite of rinnen
Gothic
Romanization
rann
- Romanization of 𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌽
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rann, from Proto-Germanic *razną.
Noun
rann n (genitive singular ranns, nominative plural rönn)
- (poetic) house, home
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
rann (strong)
- first/third-person singular past indicative of renna
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish rann, rand (“quatrain”).
Noun
rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)
- (poetry) quatrain
- (poetry) stanza, verse
Declension
Etymology 2
From Old Irish rann (“part (of a whole); party, side, adherent”).
Noun
rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rannta)
- (literary) party, side (in a dispute)
- (literary, in the plural) adherents, partisans, confederates
- (mathematics) partition
Declension
- rannach1 (“apportioning, sharing; open-handed”, adjective)
- rannaire1 m (“food-distributor, carver”)
- rannán m (“(military) division”)
- rannóg f (“section”)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
rann
- genitive plural of roinn
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rann, rand”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
rann
- past of renna
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *ɸrasnā.
Pronunciation
Noun
rann f (genitive rainne, nominative plural ranna)
- part (of a whole)
Inflection
Feminine ā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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rannL
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rainnL
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rannaH
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Vocative
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rannL
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rainnL
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rannaH
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Accusative
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rainnN
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rainnL
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rannaH
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Genitive
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rainneH
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rannL
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rannN
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Dative
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rainnL
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rannaib
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rannaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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rann also rrann after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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rann pronounced with /r(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish rann.
Pronunciation
Noun
rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)
- part, section, portion
- (poetry) verse, stanza, rhyme
Synonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “rann”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rann, rand”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Swedish
Verb
rann
- past indicative of rinna