See also: Binn.

English

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Noun

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binn (plural binns)

  1. Archaic spelling of bin (storage container for wine, etc.).
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1853, →OCLC:
      Mr. Tulkinghorn sits at one of the open windows, enjoying a bottle of old port. Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless binn of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish bind, binn (melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing),[4] from Proto-Celtic *bandis (harmonious, melodious),[5] probably related to etymology 2 (peak, summit).

Adjective

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binn (genitive singular masculine binn, genitive singular feminine binne, plural binne, comparative binne)

  1. (of music) sweet, melodious, harmonious
Declension
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Declension of binn
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative binn bhinn binne;
bhinne2
vocative bhinn binne
genitive binne binne binn
dative binn;
bhinn1
bhinn binne;
bhinne2
Comparative níos binne
Superlative is binne

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish benn,[6] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (peak, top).

Noun

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binn f (genitive singular binne, nominative plural beanna)

  1. peak, tip, summit (of a mountain or hill)
  2. (architecture) corner, gable
  3. pinnacle
  4. horn
  5. (figuratively) stanza, couplet
Declension
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Declension of binn (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative binn beanna
vocative a bhinn a bheanna
genitive binne beann
dative binn beanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhinn na beanna
genitive na binne na mbeann
dative leis an mbinn
don bhinn
leis na beanna
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of binn
radical lenition eclipsis
binn bhinn mbinn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 98, page 55
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 325, page 113
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*bandi, *bando-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
  6. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “benn (‘peak; horn’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old English

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Etymology 1

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From a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (cart, carriage) (whence Middle Welsh benn, modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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binn f

  1. stall

Etymology 2

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Noun

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binn f

  1. manger, crib, basket
    • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
      Ond on þone ylcan dæġ Crīst ġerēorde fīf þūsenda wera of fīf hlāfum ond of twām fisċum, ēac wīfum ond ċildum, þāra wæs unġerīm, ond þāra hlāfġebroca wæs tō lāfe twelf binna fulle.
      And on the same day, Christ fed five thousand men and numerous women and children with five loaves of bread and two fishes, and the remaining fragments of bread filled twelve baskets.
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Strong ō-stem:

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  • English: bin

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Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish bind, binn (melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing), from Proto-Celtic *bandis (harmonious, melodious), probably related to Irish binn (peak, summit).

Adjective

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binn (comparative binne)

  1. melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet
    èist ri òran binn nan eunlisten to the sweet song of the birds
  2. shrill
  3. harmonious

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Celtic *bendi, *benni, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (to speak), see also Sanskrit भान (bhāna, evidence), English ban (public proclamation, edict).

Noun

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binn f (genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

  1. (law) sentence, judgement, verdict, decision, condemnation
  2. fate
  3. melody
  4. hopper of a mill

Mutation

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Mutation of binn
radical lenition
binn bhinn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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