See also: téinn

Irish edit

Adjective edit

teinn (genitive singular feminine teinne, plural teinne, comparative teinne)

  1. Superseded spelling of tinn.

Declension edit

Adjective edit

teinn

  1. (archaic) inflection of teann:
    1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
    2. dative singular feminine

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
teinn theinn dteinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *tainaz.

Noun edit

teinn m (genitive teins, plural teinar)

  1. twig
  2. sprout

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Icelandic: teinn
  • Faroese: teinur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tein; (dialectal) teidn, tæn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tein
  • Old Swedish: tēn
  • Danish: ten
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ten