rin

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "rin"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.

Verb

rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinning, simple past ran, past participle run)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, dialectal) To run.
    • 1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, volume 1, John Macrone, page 314:
      "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it. […] ."
    • a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page 211:
      O! gin I were where Gadie[the name of a rivulet] rins,
    • 1879, I. T. Tregellas , Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,
      I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

Noun

rin (plural rin)

  1. A coin worth 1⁄1000 of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.

Anagrams

Arigidi

Pronoun

rin

  1. you, second person singular pronoun, as object

References

  • B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Pronoun

rin

  1. accusative of ri

Galician

Verb

rin

  1. inflection of rir:
    1. third-person plural present indicative
    2. first-person singular preterite indicative

German

Adverb

rin

  1. (regional, colloquial) Alternative form of rein (“inside”)
    Rin in die gute Stube! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

  • “rin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Japanese

Romanization

rin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of りん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of リン

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian rein. Cognates include West Frisian rein.

Noun

rin m

  1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) rain
    en smitjenen rin
    heavy rain
    Det liket efter rin.
    It looks like rain.

Scots

Pronunciation

Verb

rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinnin, simple past run, past participle run)

  1. to run
    • 1788, Robert Burns (lyrics and music), “Auld Lang Syne”:
      We twa hae run about the braes, / and pou'd the gowans fine;
      We two have run about the braes, / and picked the daisies fine;

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English rim

Noun

rin m (plural rines)

  1. rim (of wheel)

See also

Further reading

Sumerian

Romanization

rin

  1. Romanization of 𒆸 (rin)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɾen/, (colloquial)

Adverb

rin (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of din

Usage notes

  • When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, din is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made.

Welsh

Noun

rin

  1. Soft mutation of rhin.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhin rin unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

Verb

rin

  1. run
  2. walk

Yola

Verb

rin

  1. Alternative form of rhin
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      F. rin, risheen.
      E. run, rushing.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 14

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *rɪ̃̀

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

rìn

  1. to walk
    1. (with bá) to associate with
      Ọmọlúwàbí ní ń bá ọmọlúwàbí rìn ― Good people associate with good people
    2. to move; to locomote
      Ọ̀kadà jẹ́ ọkọ̀ kan tó ń fẹsẹ̀ méjì rìn ― An okada is a vehicle that goes on two wheels
Usage notes
  • rin when followed by a direct object
Derived terms
proverbs

Etymology 2

Kárọ́ọ̀tì tí à ń rin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

rin

  1. to grate

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Verb

rin

  1. (ergative) to be moist; to moisten; to dampen
    Amọ̀ yìí ò rin rárá ― This clay isn't moist at all
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Verb

rìn

  1. to tickle
    Ó rìn mí lábíyá ― He tickled my armpit
  2. to press down
    Ẹrù ń rìn ín mọ́lẹ̀ ― Load weighs it down
Usage notes

rin when followed by a direct object.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Verb

rín

  1. to smile
  2. to laugh
Usage notes

typically used with ẹ̀rín (“smile; laugh”)

Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *triːlᴬ (“stone”); Cognate with Thai หิน (hǐn), Lao ຫີນ (hīn), Lü ᦠᦲᧃ (ḣiin), Shan ႁိၼ် (hǐn), Tai Nüa ᥞᥤᥢᥴ (hín), Ahom 𑜍𑜢𑜃𑜫 (rin), Saek หรี่น.

Pronunciation

Noun

rin (Sawndip forms 𬒞 or 𰧄 or 𮀡 or 砛 or 𮀙 or ⿰石土 or ⿱石心 or 碒 or 磊 or ⿰石忍 or 𡊵 or ⿵门石 or 磌 or 鿬 or 䂩 or ⿱火䡛 or 䂝 or 𮀝 or 磷 or 碄 or 斫, 1957–1982 spelling rin)

  1. stone; rock
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