binn

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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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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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Derived terms
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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
binn bhinn mbinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 98, page 55
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, 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

Further reading

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Old English

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Etymology

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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

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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Scottish Gaelic mutation
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binn bhinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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