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Clipping of general.

Noun edit

gen (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly UK, informal) Information.
    • 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero:
      Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.
  2. (birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
    • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 172:
      I had some recent gen that they had been seen quite recently at Kunoth Well, a little dot on the map on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
  3. (fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
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gen (plural gens)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gen (member of the Gen Movement)

Etymology 3 edit

Shortened from generate and generator.

Verb edit

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

  1. To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
    • 1991, Bruce H. Hunter, Karen Bradford Hunter, UNIX Systems: Advanced Administration and Management Handbook:
      Defining the devices so that they will be genned during the sysgen and installation is the other half.
    • 1993, Debra R. Niedermiller-Chaffins, Drew Heywood, Inside Novell NetWare, →ISBN, page 100:
      The older, genned files are difficult to keep up-to-date and are unsupported for some newer NICs.
    • 2010, Donald K. Burleson, Oracle Tuning: The Definitive Reference, →ISBN, page 1109:
      As the capacities of the large servers are exceeded, a new server is genned into the RAC cluster.
    • 2012, Robert Charles Wilson, Bios, →ISBN:
      The Turing factories on Isis's small moon had fallen short of productivity goals, though another two factory units had been genned.

Noun edit

gen (plural gens)

  1. (slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
    Synonym: genny

Etymology 4 edit

Shortened from genetic engineering

Verb edit

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

  1. (science fiction) To genetically engineer.
    • 2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:
      Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.
    • 2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:
      Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

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Etymology unknown. Possibilities include:

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gen (plural gens)

  1. (obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Gambling of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor[1], volume 1, page 17:
      The betting also began to shift. "Sixpence Ned wins!" cried three or four; "Sixpence he loses!" answered another; "Done!" and up went the halfpence. "Half-a-crown Joe loses!"—"Here you are," answered Joe, but he lost again. "I'll try you a 'gen'" (shilling) said a coster; "And a 'rouf yenap'" (fourpence), added the other. "Say a 'exes'" (sixpence).—"Done!" and the betting continued, till the ground was spotted with silver and halfpence.
    • 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:
      "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

Etymology 6 edit

Clipping of generation.

Noun edit

gen (plural gens)

  1. (informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
    • 2022 June 28, “Wimbledon tennis: Fans react to Kristina Mladenovic's eye-catching outfit”, in The New Zealand Herald[2]:
      "Mladenovic playing in what the young gen is calling a crop top, but what my gen is calling a bra," Bouchard tweeted. "Sign of the times that Wimbledon has no issue with that. Still can remember the year some had troubles because of 'too short' skirts lol."
    • 2022 July 4, Ben Schott, “Is There Anything That Gen Z Won’t Drink?”, in The Washington Post[3]:
      It’s anyone’s guess whether such attitudes will persist into adulthood, but if Gen Z (and the gens to come) do prove more alco-skeptic than their forbears then the above twelve steps are deftly primed to cash in.
  2. (informal) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
    • 2004, Sally Bishai, “Courtship, Marriage and the Ubiquitous ‘Dating Thing’”, in Mid-East Meets West: On Being and Becoming a Modern Arab American, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:
      For my fellow first-gens, get ready to hide a smirk, because your life story is likely hidden somewhere in this chapter. For the uninitiated—that is, the person who's never had a thing to do with the Arab way of doing things (namely dating)—I advise you to buckle up.
    • 2016, Dwight Lang, “Witnessing Social Class in the Academy”, in Allison L. Hurst, Sandi Kawecka Nenga, editors, Working in Class: Recognizing How Social Class Shapes Our Academic Work, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, part 2 (Teaching), page 102:
      [] I witness firsthand the difficult "downstream" outcomes (Grusky 2014) of social class stratification in a university setting where approximately 3,400 undergraduates (13% of the undergraduate population) are first in their families to attend and/or graduate from college (first-gens). Most of these students are low income and nearly 1,200 first-gens have grown up in poverty.
    • 2017, Temple Fennell, “SCIE: Sustainable Cycle of Investing Engagement”, in Kirby Rosplock, The Complete Direct Investing Handbook: A Guide for Family Offices, Qualified Purchasers, and Accredited Investors (Bloomberg Financial Series), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 242:
      The Family Values and Framing Strategy steps address soft issues as what is the purpose of the new investment strategy, is there a desire to engage and train the next generation (Next Gens), and is there building buy-in and engagement across the family members important to strengthen family unity.
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Gen.

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gen m (plural gens)

  1. gene

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Czech edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Gen.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

gen m inan

  1. gene

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Further reading edit

  • gen in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • gen in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, generation, descent), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, I come into being). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.

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gen n (singular definite genet, plural indefinite gener)

  1. (genetics) gene
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gen

  1. imperative of genne

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Etymology edit

From German Gen, from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, generation, descent), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, I come into being). Coined by the Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication.

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gen n (plural genen)

  1. gene

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  • Indonesian: gen

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Etymology edit

From Middle High German gēn, gein, from gegen with elision of intervocalic -g- (compare Getreide, Maid). Doublet of gegen (against).

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gen (governs the accusative)

  1. (literary, somewhat dated) in the direction; to; towards (a place or time)
    gen Nordento the north, northwards
    gen Abendtowards the evening, in the late afternoon

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Further reading edit

  • gen” in Duden online
  • gen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Haitian Creole edit

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gen

  1. Contraction of genyen.

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From German Gen.

Noun edit

gen n (genitive singular gens, nominative plural gen)

  1. gene

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Indonesian edit

 
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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Dutch gen (gene), from German Gen (which coined by Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication), from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, generation, descent), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, I come into being).

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gen (plural gen-gen, first-person possessive genku, second-person possessive genmu, third-person possessive gennya)

  1. gene
    1. (genetics) a theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
    2. (molecular biology) locus: a segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein.

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gen

  1. Rōmaji transcription of げん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ゲン

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Dutch gen (gene), from German Gen (which was coined by Danish biologist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen in a German-language publication), from Ancient Greek γενεά (geneá, generation, descent), from the aorist infinitive of γίγνομαι (gígnomai, I come into being).

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gen (plural gen-gen, informal 1st possessive genku, 2nd possessive genmu, 3rd possessive gennya)

  1. gene
    1. (genetics) a theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair colour.
    2. (molecular biology) locus: a segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein.

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Romanization edit

gen

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gēn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of gén.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of gěn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of gèn.

Usage notes edit

  • 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.

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gen

  1. Alternative form of gain (against)

Mwotlap edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən. Cognate with Vurës gen.

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gen

  1. to eat (meat, vegetables)
  2. to suffer (s.th. unpleasant)
  3. to acquire (an honorific rank)
  4. (transitive) (fire) to burn s.th.
  5. (intransitive) (fire) to burn

Derived terms edit

References edit

François, Alexandre. 2024. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version)entry gen.

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Noun edit

gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gener, definite plural gena or genene)

  1. (biology) a gene

Usage notes edit

  • Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine.[1] The form genen was then made obsolete.

References edit

  1. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)

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gen n (definite singular genet, indefinite plural gen, definite plural gena)

  1. (biology) a gene

Usage notes edit

  • Prior to a revision in 2020, this noun was also considered grammatically masculine.[1] The forms genen, genar, and genane were then made obsolete.

References edit

  1. ^ Language Council of Norway, Spelling decisions since 2012 (in Norwegian, retrieved 12.21.20)

Old English edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *ju.

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ġēn

  1. still, yet
  2. again, further

Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Celtic *gʷenom.

Noun edit

gen n or f

  1. smile, laugh
  2. sport, levity
Inflection edit

The Dictionary of the Irish Language believes that this was a u-stem, while Matasović disputes this classification since *giun would be expected from such a stem due to raising and u-infection; he declares it an o-stem.[1] All forms except the nominative are unattested.

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative genN genN genL, gena
Vocative genN genN genL, gena
Accusative genN genN genL, gena
Genitive ginL gen genN
Dative giunL genaib genaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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gen f

  1. sword
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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative genL ginL genaH
Vocative genL ginL genaH
Accusative ginN ginL genaH
Genitive gineH genL genN
Dative ginL genaib genaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
gen gen
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
ngen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 146

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gen m (feminine singular genta, masculine plural gens, feminine plural gentas)

  1. attractive; pleasing; nice; fair; pleasant
    • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour(Wikisource)
      Lo gens tems de pascor
      The pleasant time of Easter

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Gen.

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gen m inan

  1. gene

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adjectives
adverb
noun

Further reading edit

  • gen in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin genus.

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Noun edit

gen n (plural genuri)

  1. gender
  2. type, sort, kind
  3. way, style, manner
  4. (biological category) genus, species, family

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Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from German Gen.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈxen/ [ˈxẽn]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -en
  • Syllabification: gen

Noun edit

gen m (plural genes)

  1. gene

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Swedish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse gegn (straight, direct).

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gen (comparative genare, superlative genast)

  1. gain; short, direct
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Etymology 2 edit

From German Gen.

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gen c

  1. gene
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Declension of gen 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gen genen gener generna
Genitive gens genens geners genernas
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Tok Pisin edit

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Etymology edit

From English again.

Adverb edit

gen

  1. again
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:
      Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.
      →New International Version translation

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Ottoman Turkish كیك (geñ), from Proto-Turkic *kēŋ (wide, broad).

Cognate with Yakut киэҥ (kieñ, wide), Bashkir киң (kiñ), Kazakh кең (keñ), etc.

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gen

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) wide
    Synonym: geniş
    Antonym: dar
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gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

  1. (colloquial) A field that wasn't plowed for several years.

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from French gene.

Noun edit

gen (definite accusative geni, plural genler)

  1. (biology) gene
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Inflection
Nominative gen
Definite accusative geni
Singular Plural
Nominative gen genler
Definite accusative geni genleri
Dative gene genlere
Locative gende genlerde
Ablative genden genlerden
Genitive genin genlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular genim genlerim
2nd singular genin genlerin
3rd singular geni genleri
1st plural genimiz genlerimiz
2nd plural geniniz genleriniz
3rd plural genleri genleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular genimi genlerimi
2nd singular genini genlerini
3rd singular genini genlerini
1st plural genimizi genlerimizi
2nd plural geninizi genlerinizi
3rd plural genlerini genlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular genime genlerime
2nd singular genine genlerine
3rd singular genine genlerine
1st plural genimize genlerimize
2nd plural geninize genlerinize
3rd plural genlerine genlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular genimde genlerimde
2nd singular geninde genlerinde
3rd singular geninde genlerinde
1st plural genimizde genlerimizde
2nd plural geninizde genlerinizde
3rd plural genlerinde genlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular genimden genlerimden
2nd singular geninden genlerinden
3rd singular geninden genlerinden
1st plural genimizden genlerimizden
2nd plural geninizden genlerinizden
3rd plural genlerinden genlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular genimin genlerimin
2nd singular geninin genlerinin
3rd singular geninin genlerinin
1st plural genimizin genlerimizin
2nd plural geninizin genlerinizin
3rd plural genlerinin genlerinin

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gen

  1. gene

Usage notes edit

  • This is one of the rare cases in which a word's pronunciation differs from its spelling.

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Vurës edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.[1] Cognate with Maori kai, Malay makan.

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gen

  1. to eat (foods other than meat)

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References edit

  1. ^ Catriona Malau (September 2021) “gen”, in A Dictionary of Vurës, Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific Linguistics), Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 75

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gen

  1. (colloquial) first-person singular of gan
  2. (colloquial) second-person singular of gan

Zhuang edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Tai *qeːnᴬ (arm). Cognate with Thai แขน (kɛ̌ɛn), Northern Thai ᨡᩯ᩠ᨶ, Lao ແຂນ (khǣn), ᦶᦃᧃ (ẋaen), Tai Dam ꪵꪄꪙ, Shan ၶႅၼ် (khěn).

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gen (1957–1982 spelling gen)

  1. (anatomy) arm

Zou edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

gen

  1. (transitive) to say

References edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 41