Wiktionary

ain

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ain"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

ain

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ainu.

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

ain (plural ains)

  1. Alternative form of ayin (“Semitic letter”)

Etymology 2 edit

From (Scots) Middle English aȝen.

Pronunciation edit

Determiner edit

ain

  1. (Scotland) Own; belonging to one.
    • 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 86:
      Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair,
      Combing down his yellow hair,
      He's my ain for evermair,
      Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.

Alemannic German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German ein, from Old High German ain, from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz. Cognate with German ein, Dutch een, English one, an, Swedish en.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

ain m (feminine ai, neuter ais)

  1. one

Biem edit

Noun edit

ain

  1. woman

Further reading edit

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Finnish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑ̝i̯n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑin
  • Syllabification(key): ain

Etymology 1 edit

Apocope

Adverb edit

ain (poetic)

  1. Alternative form of aina
    • 1968, “Käymme yhdessä ain”, in Pertti Reponen (lyrics), Wolfgang Roloff (music), Tapani Kansa, performed by Tapani Kansa, Finnish cover of Dunja, du:
      Käymme yhdessä ain
      Käymme aina rinnakkain
      Vaikka esteitä on
      Joskus tiellä kohtalon
      We will always stay together
      We will always stay side by side
      Even if at times there are
      obstacles on the road of fate

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

ain

  1. instructive plural of aa

Anagrams edit

German Low German edit

Alternative forms edit

Article edit

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ain m or f (neuter air)

  1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) a, an
    Wen duu ain aidits kaput mökst den giwt dröig tijd.
    If you kill a gecko, there will be drought.

Numeral edit

ain m or f (neuter air)

  1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) one
    Sai hät blous ain kau.
    She has only one cow.

See also edit

  • acht (“eight (8); eighth (8th)”)
  • airst (“first (1st)”)

Further reading edit

  • Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 76 [about the indefinite article, giving the nominative as masc. air, fem. ain, neut. air, compare with SHG masc./neut. ein, fem. eine with one form for masc. and neut. and another form for fem.] & 97 [about the cardinal, giving it as "1. ain(d)"]
  • Ismael Tressmann, Dicionário Enciclopédico Pomerano-Português. Pomerisch-Portugijsisch Wöirbauk, 2006, p. 11 s.v. ain & air

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

ain

  1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌹𐌽

Inari Sami edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Finnish aina, from Proto-Finnic *aina. Compare Northern Sami ain.

Adverb edit

ain

  1. always
  2. still

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Ingrian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *aina. Cognates with Estonian aina and Finnish aina.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

ain

  1. always, on and on
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 32:
      Koika puhtanna ain piä.
      Always keep your bed tidy.
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 14:
      Geminatan möö ain kirjutamma kahel bukvaal.
      We always write geminates as two letters.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 6
  • Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 17
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[3], →ISBN, page 38

Italian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Romanization of Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ain m or f (invariable)

  1. ayin
    1. the name of the Arabic-script letter ع
    2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ע
    3. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤏
    4. the name of the Syriac-script letter ܥ

Further reading edit

  • ain in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams edit

Malay edit

 
ain

Etymology edit

From Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʿayVn-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ain (Jawi spelling عين, plural ain-ain, informal 1st possessive ainku, 2nd possessive ainmu, 3rd possessive ainnya)

  1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

Synonyms edit

Manx edit

Pronoun edit

ain

  1. first-person plural of ec (at us)
  2. (idiomatic) our

Norman edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

ain m (plural ains)

  1. (Jersey) fishhook

Synonyms edit

Northern Sami edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Finnish aina, from Proto-Finnic *aina. Compare Inari Sami ain.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈajn/

Adverb edit

ain

  1. still
  2. even
  3. yet

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Frisian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-West Germanic *aigan. Cognates include Old English āgan and Old Saxon ēgan.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

āin

  1. own

Descendants edit

  • Saterland Frisian: oain

References edit

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old High German edit

Numeral edit

ain

  1. (Alemannia) Alternative form of ein

Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

·ain

  1. third-person singular future/present subjunctive conjunct of aingid

Related terms edit

Verb edit

ain

  1. second-person singular imperative of aingid

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ain unchanged n-ain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Pohnpeian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from English iron, from Middle English iren, a rhotacism of Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Gaulish īsarno-, from Proto-Celtic *īsarno-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēsh₂r̥no- (“bloody, red”), from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).

Noun edit

ain

  1. flatiron, clothes iron

Verb edit

ain

  1. (intransitive) (neutral) to iron

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from English irons.

Noun edit

ain

  1. handcuffs, shackles, irons
    Polis kin doadoahngki ain.
    Policemen use handcuffs.

Scots edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English aȝen, from Old English āgen, ǣġen (“one's own”), or possibly from Old Norse eiginn (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”). More at own.

Pronunciation edit

Determiner edit

ain

  1. Belonging to, or on behalf of, a specified person (especially oneself); own.
    Ma ain dear sister ― My own dear sister
    • c. 1915, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Real Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Illustration:
      Clap, clap handies
      Mammie's wee, wee ain.
      Clap, clap hands
      Mommy's wee, wee own.

Synonyms edit

References edit

Tetum edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaqay, compare Nias ahe and Malay kaki.

Noun edit

ain

  1. leg

Tok Pisin edit

Etymology edit

From English iron.

Noun edit

ain

  1. iron; steel

Votic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *aina.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑi̯n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
  • Hyphenation: ain

Adverb edit

ain

  1. always
  2. incessantly
  3. still, anyway, nevertheless
    Synonyms: taki, aintaki

References edit

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “aina”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yucatec Maya edit

Noun edit

ain

  1. Obsolete spelling of áayin
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