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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Geïn, coined by Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1832, from Ancient Greek γήινος (gḗinos, “of earth”), from
Noun
[edit]gein (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry, biochemistry, dated) Humic acid.
- 1843 January 9, Henry Bidleman Bascom, “Glance at the Natural History and Philosophy of Agriculture […]”, in Thomas N. Ralston, editor, Posthumous Works of the Rev. Henry B. Bascom, […], volume 2, published 1856, page 201:
- Hence, a most interesting conclusion—without salts and gein we have no vegetable production. The gein in solution is essential to fruit, and yet, without the salts, the insolubility of gein would leave the soil barren.
- 1893, John Nisbet, Soil and Situation in Relation to Forest Growth, page 10:
- The humic acid and other similar acids (ulmic, geïn, &c.) have a very strong affinity for ammonia, which itself is essential to the nourishment of forest growth, as plants have only a limited power of assimilating the free nitrogen of the air.
- 1907, Philip R. Björling, Frederick T. Gissing, Peat: Its Use and Manufacture, page 6:
- Thus with a free supply of air the residue is mainly humin; with less air it is ulmin; and when air is excluded it is gein.
References
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Yiddish חן (kheyn, “grace, charm”), from Hebrew חֵן.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gein m (uncountable, diminutive geintje n)
- (Netherlands, informal) fun, pleasure, joke
Derived terms
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[edit]Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gein
- instructive plural of gee
Anagrams
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Verb
[edit]gein
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gein
- Alternative form of gayn (“direct, fast, good, helpful”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]gein
- Alternative form of gayn (“gain, reward, advantage”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Preposition
[edit]gein
- Alternative form of gain (“against”)
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *genan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gein n (genitive gene, nominative plural gene)
- verbal noun of gainithir
- birth
- (Christianity) the Nativity
- someone who was born
Inflection
[edit]Neuter n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | geinN | geinN | geinenL |
Vocative | geinN | geinN | geinenL |
Accusative | geinN | geinN | geinenL |
Genitive | geine | geinenN | geinenN |
Dative | geinimL | geinenaib | geinenaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
gein | gein pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ngein |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, pages 100, 211
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gan-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 150-151
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gein”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
[edit]Verb
[edit]gein
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]gein (nominative plural geins)
Declension
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