egin

From Proto-Basque *e-gin-i, possibly related to Iberian ekien.

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• IPA^(key): /eɡin/ [e.ɣ̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -eɡin, -in
• Hyphenation: e‧gin

egin da/du/zaio (imperfect participle egiten, future participle egingo or eginen, short form egin, verbal noun egite)

1. (du) to do
   1. to do, make, create, produce
   2. to cook
   3. to spend (time)

      Sei hilabete egin nituen basamortuan. ― I spent six months in the desert. (literally, “I did six months in the desert.”)

   4. to turn a certain age

      Bihar 30 urte egingo ditu. ― He/she'll be 30 tomorrow. (literally, “He/she'll do 30 years tomorrow.”)

   5. [with instrumental] to speak (a language)

      Egin dezagun ingelesez. ― Let's speak English.

   6. [with inessive] to play (a game)

   kartetan egin ― to play cards (literally, “to do in cards”)

   1. [with allative] to turn
   2. (with dezagun only) let's suppose
2. (da, du) to become, to turn into
3. (da) [with allative] to get accustomed to
4. (zaio) to seem, to look
5. (auxiliary) Used as a light verb to allow nouns to function as verbs. The resulting verbs usually take transitive auxiliaries, even when translated by intransitive verbs.

   hitz egin ― to speak (literally, “to do word”)

6. (auxiliary) Used as a verbal intensifier.

   Etorri egin zara azkenean. ― You did come at last.

7. (auxiliary, pro-verb) Refers back to a previous verb.

• The synthetic verbal forms are not archaic, but periphrastic forms with an auxiliary are more common.

• “egin”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “egin”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

egin

1. own

• egið forlag (“self-published”)

• eginleiki

• eiga (to own)

From Old Irish éicen (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; necessitousness”).

egin m

1. force

   er egin hene ― by sheer force

   egin ny tarraghtyn ― force of the circumstances

2. rape

   egin ny Sabeenee ― the Rape of the Sabines

• shegin (“to have to”)

Proto-Celtic *akīnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *-iHnos.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡɪn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeːɡɪn/, /ˈɛɡɪn/

egin (plural, singular eginyn m)

1. shoots, sprouts, buds
2. stubs
3. beginnings
4. offspring, progeny

• egin ffa (“beansprouts”)
• egino (“to sprout, to germinate”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “egin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies