penn

See also: Penn and penn-

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton penn, from Old Breton penn, from Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛnː/

Noun

penn m (plural pennoù)

  1. head
  2. chief, leader
  3. end

Mutation

Mutation of penn
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular penn benn fenn unchanged
plural pennoù bennoù fennoù unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • pedn

Etymology

From Middle Cornish pen, from Old Cornish pen, from Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

Pronunciation

Noun

penn m (plural pennow)

  1. head
  2. top, summit
  3. end

Derived terms

  • dres penn ha diwskovarn (“head over heels”)
  • drog penn (“headache”)
  • kyns penn (“within”)
  • penn a-rag (“bow (of a ship)”)
  • penn an fordh (“destination”)
  • penn bobba (“idiot”)
  • penn du (“blackhead, tadpole”)
  • penn glin (“kneecap”)
  • penn gwynn (“penguin”)
  • penn hyns (“terminal”)
  • penn kales (“stubborn, obstinate”)
  • penn koog (“empty-headed, vacuous”)
  • penn medhow (“drunkard”)
  • penn pali (“blue tit”)
  • penn pyst (“idiot”)
  • penn rudh (“redhead”)
  • penn sagh (“mumps”)
  • penn tir (“headland”)
  • penn war (“superior to”)
  • penn ys (“head of corn”)
  • penn- (“main, top, premier”)
  • penn-aghel (“geographical pole”)
  • penn-bloodh (“anniversary, birthday”)
  • penn-dro (“dizziness, giddiness, nausea, vertigo”, noun)
  • penn-dro (“dizzy, giddy, nauseous”, adjective)
  • penn-drog (“wicked”)
  • penn-seythen (“weekend”)
  • penn-sogh (“hare-brained”)
  • penncita (“capital city”)
  • penndhyskador m (“headmaster, headteacher, principal”)
  • penndhyskadores f (“headmistress, headteacher, principal”)
  • penndoll (“dolphin, grampus whale, porpoise”)
  • penndomereth (“hot-headedness”)
  • penndomm (“hot-head”)
  • penndroppya (“to nod”, verb)
  • penneghlek (“polar”)
  • penneglos (“cathedral”)
  • pennek (“big-headed”)
  • pennfenten (“source”)
  • pennfros (“muzzle”)
  • pennhembrenkyas (“general (army)”)
  • pennkuntelles (“summit (meeting)”)
  • pennlinen (“headline, heading”)
  • pennlugarn (“headlight”)
  • pennobereth (“masterpiece”)
  • pennplas (“headquarters”)
  • pennpusorn (“refrain”)
  • pennrewl (“premise”)
  • pennrewlys (“basics”)
  • Pennroweth (“premiership”)
  • Pennrynn Gwer (“Cape Verde”)
  • Pennsans (“Penzance”)
  • pennser (“architect”)
  • pennseviges (“princess”)
  • pennsevik (“prince”)
  • pennskav (“dizzy”)
  • pennskol (“university”)
  • pennskrifa (“to edit”, verb)
  • pennti (“small farmhouse”)
  • pennvagas (“anemone”)
  • pennvenyster (“premier, prime minister”)
  • pennwari (“final”)
  • toll an penn (“poll tax”)
  • yn kettep penn (“individually”)

Mutation

Mutation of penn
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
penn benn fenn unchanged unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

German

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Verb

penn

  1. singular imperative of pennen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pennen

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French peindre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛ̃n/

Verb

penn

  1. to paint

Further reading

  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN

Luxembourgish

Verb

penn

  1. second-person singular imperative of pennen

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish penn (“pen”), from Latin penna.[1]

Noun

penn m (genitive singular penney, plural pennyn)

  1. pen (a tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks)

Derived terms

  • penn leoaie m (“pencil”, literally “lead pen”)

Mutation

Mutation of penn
radical lenition eclipsis
penn phenn benn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “penn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh penn, from Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pen/

Noun

penn

  1. head
  2. chief

Derived terms

  • ympenn

Descendants

  • Welsh: pen

Mutation

Mutated forms of penn
radical soft nasal aspirate
penn benn penn / phenn
pronounced with /m̥-/		 phenn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

penn m (definite singular pennen, indefinite plural penner, definite plural pennene)

  1. a pen (writing tool)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

penn m (definite singular pennen, indefinite plural pennar, definite plural pennane)

  1. a pen (writing tool)

Derived terms

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to pinn (“peg, pin”).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /penn/, [pen]

Noun

penn m

  1. pen, enclosure, fold

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin penna (“feather”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲen̪/

Noun

penn f (genitive peinne, nominative plural penna)

  1. pen (a tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 64d4

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
singular dual plural
nominative pennL peinnL pennaH
vocative pennL peinnL pennaH
accusative peinnN peinnL pennaH
genitive peinneH pennL pennN
dative peinnL pennaib pennaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of penn
radical lenition nasalization
penn phenn
or unchanged		 penn
pronounced with /bʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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