demin
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
demin (uncountable)
- (technical, usually attributively) Demineralized water.
- It's usually not safe to drink demin.
- 1973 March, “Miniature conductivity meter”, in Control & Instrumentation, volume 5, number 3 (advertisement), London: Morgan-Grampian Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:
- There are many applications, for example it would be useful to fit it in series with ion exchange cartridges used in the laboratory or on 'demin' plants in industry.
- 2015, L. Daal, F. de Vos, J. Soons, T. de Vries, “Membrane technologies for water treatment and reuse in the power industries”, in Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano, Navin K. Rastog, editors, Advances in Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment: Materials, Processes and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy; 75), Sawston, Cambridgeshire: Woodhead Publishing, , →ISBN, page 610:
- For this reason, a demin line normally consists of a cation and an anion filter. If the water quality is not according to specifications after leaving these two filters, a mixed bed (anion and cation resins in one tank) is used.
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *demenis (“certain”), of disputed origin. MacBain derives it from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁men- (“that which is established”), while Pedersen derives it from Proto-Celtic *dī- + a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to change”), thus ‘unchangeable’.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
demin (equative demnithir, comparative demniu)
- sure, certain
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112b13
- Is demniu liunn a n-ad·chiam húa súlib ol·daas an ro·chluinemmar húa chlúasaib.
- What we see with (lit. from) the eyes is more certain to us than what we hear with (lit. from) the ears.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112b13
Declension edit
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | demin | demin | demin |
| Vocative | demin | ||
| Accusative | demin | demin | |
| Genitive | demin | demne | demin |
| Dative | demin | demin | demin |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | demni | demni | |
| Vocative | demni | ||
| Accusative | demni | ||
| Genitive | demin* demne | ||
| Dative | demnib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| demin | demin pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndemin |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “deimin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “demin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN
- Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 174
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish دمین (demin),[1] from Proto-Turkic *tēmin (“immediately”).[2] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (témin, timin, “just now”), etc.
Adverb edit
demin
Further reading edit
- “demin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دمین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 915
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dēmin”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill