binn

See also: Binn.

English

Noun

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

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    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

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

    1. (of music) sweet, melodious, harmonious
    Declension
    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

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

      Noun

      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
      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
      Derived terms
      • binn siosúir f (“blade of scissors”)
      • binn tí f (“gable end”)
      • biorbheannach m (“pronghorn”)

      Mutation

      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.

      References

      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

      Further reading

      Old English

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      From Late Latin benna, its Celtic source, or a cognate in another Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, modern Welsh ben), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna).[1][2][3]

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /binn/, [bin]

      Noun

      binn f[4]

      1. stall
      2. 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.

      Declension

      Strong ō-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative binn binna, binne
      accusative binne binna, binne
      genitive binne binna
      dative binne binnum

      Descendants

      • Middle English: bynne, binne, byn
        • English: bin

      References

      1. ^ Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “bin”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎[1], Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94.
      2. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963) [1934], “binn(e) f.”, in Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →OCLC, page 24.
      3. ^ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “bin”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 95, column 2; reprinted 1994.
      4. ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bin”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

      Scottish Gaelic

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /b̥iːɲ/
      • (Lewis) IPA(key): /b̥ə̃ĩɲ/, /b̥ẽĩɲ/

      Etymology 1

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

        Adjective

        binn (comparative nas binne, superlative as binne)

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

        Etymology 2

          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

          binn f (genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

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

          Mutation

          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.

          References

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