zain
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
zain (plural zains)
- (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
- 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse:
- Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]
Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
zain inan
- vein
- (colloquial) nerve
- (colloquial) tendon, sinew
- artery
- varicose vein
- Synonym: barize
- vigor, strength
- (figuratively) root
Declension edit
Declension of zain (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | zain | zaina | zainak |
ergative | zainek | zainak | zainek |
dative | zaini | zainari | zainei |
genitive | zainen | zainaren | zainen |
comitative | zainekin | zainarekin | zainekin |
causative | zainengatik | zainarengatik | zainengatik |
benefactive | zainentzat | zainarentzat | zainentzat |
instrumental | zainez | zainaz | zainez |
inessive | zainetan | zainean | zainetan |
locative | zainetako | zaineko | zainetako |
allative | zainetara | zainera | zainetara |
terminative | zainetaraino | zaineraino | zainetaraino |
directive | zainetarantz | zainerantz | zainetarantz |
destinative | zainetarako | zainerako | zainetarako |
ablative | zainetatik | zainetik | zainetatik |
partitive | zainik | — | — |
prolative | zaintzat | — | — |
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Basque *zani.[1]
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
zain anim
Declension edit
Declension of zain (animate, ending in consonant)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | zain | zaina | zainak |
ergative | zainek | zainak | zainek |
dative | zaini | zainari | zainei |
genitive | zainen | zainaren | zainen |
comitative | zainekin | zainarekin | zainekin |
causative | zainengatik | zainarengatik | zainengatik |
benefactive | zainentzat | zainarentzat | zainentzat |
instrumental | zainez | zainaz | zainez |
inessive | zainengan | zainarengan | zainengan |
locative | — | — | — |
allative | zainengana | zainarengana | zainengana |
terminative | zainenganaino | zainarenganaino | zainenganaino |
directive | zainenganantz | zainarenganantz | zainenganantz |
destinative | zainenganako | zainarenganako | zainenganako |
ablative | zainengandik | zainarengandik | zainengandik |
partitive | zainik | — | — |
prolative | zaintzat | — | — |
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
zain
- Third-person singular (hura), taking informal second-person singular feminine (hiri) as indirect object, present indicative form of izan.
References edit
- ^ “zain” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Further reading edit
Cimbrian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.
Determiner edit
zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)
- his, her, its, their
- Dar zain zun machet in zòllander. ― His son is in the military.
- An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren. ― Their daughter is a teacher.
- his, hers, its, theirs
- De khua ist zain. ― The cow is hers.
Usage notes edit
The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:
- They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
- Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
- The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.
Inflection edit
Inflection of zain | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
zaindar | zaina | zaines | zaine | |
These inflections are only used in exclamations. |
See also edit
Possessive determiners | ||
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singular | plural | |
1st person | main | ögnar |
2nd person | dain | ôar |
3rd person | zain |
References edit
- “zain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
zain (feminine zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)
- Having no white markings (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.)
Further reading edit
- “zain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.