ain

ain

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ainu.

• äin

From Middle High German ein, from Old High German ain, from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz. Cognate with German ein, Dutch een, English one, an, Swedish en.

• IPA^(key): /æin/

ain m (feminine ai, neuter ais)

1. one

ain

1. woman

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑin
• Syllabification^(key): ain

ain

1. instructive plural of aa

ain

1. (poetic) Synonym of aina

• ani, nai

• een
• ein
• en

ain m or f (neuter air)

1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) a, an

   Wen duu ain aidits kaput mökst den giwt dröig tijd.

   If you kill a gecko, there will be drought.

ain m or f (neuter air)

1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) one

   Sai hät blous ain kau.

   She has only one cow.

• acht (“eight (8); eighth (8th)”)
• airst (“first (1st)”)

• Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 76 [about the indefinite article, giving the nominative as masc. air, fem. ain, neut. air, compare with SHG masc./neut. ein, fem. eine with one form for masc. and neut. and another form for fem.] & 97 [about the cardinal, giving it as "1. ain(d)"]
• Ismael Tressmann, Dicionário Enciclopédico Pomerano-Português. Pomerisch-Portugijsisch Wöirbauk, 2006, p. 11 s.v. ain & air

ain

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌹𐌽

Borrowed from Finnish aina, from Proto-Finnic *aina. Compare Northern Sami ain.

ain

1. always
2. still

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• aina, aine

From Proto-Finnic *aina. Cognates with Estonian aina and Finnish aina.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑi̯n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: ain
• Homophone: aine

ain

1. always, on and on
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 32:

     Koika puhtanna ain piä.

     Always keep your bed tidy.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 14:

     Geminatan möö ain kirjutamma kahel bukvaal.

     We always write geminates as two letters.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 6
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 38

• ayin, ayn

Romanization of Arabic عَيْن‎ (ʿayn), from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈajn/
• Rhymes: -ajn
• Hyphenation: àin

ain m or f (invariable)

1. ayin
   1. the name of the Arabic-script letter ع
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter ע
   3. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤏
   4. the name of the Syriac-script letter ܥ

• ain in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• -ina, ani

From Arabic عَيْن‎ (ʿayn), from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʿayVn-.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /aen/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aɪn/
• Rhymes: -aen, -en

ain (Jawi spelling عين‎, plural ain-ain, informal 1st possessive ainku, 2nd possessive ainmu, 3rd possessive ainnya)

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

• (organ): mata / مات‎

ain

1. first-person plural of ec (at us)
2. (idiomatic) our

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ain m (plural ains)

1. (Jersey) fishhook

• cro

Borrowed from Finnish aina, from Proto-Finnic *aina. Compare Inari Sami ain.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈajn/

ain

1. still
2. even
3. yet

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• ēin

From Proto-West Germanic *aigan. Cognates include Old English āgan and Old Saxon ēgan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːi̯n/

āin

1. own

• Saterland Frisian: oain

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

ain

1. (Alemannia) Alternative form of ein

• IPA^(key): /anʲ/

·ain

1. third-person singular future/present subjunctive conjunct of aingid

• anais (absolute)

ain

1. second-person singular imperative of aingid

• IPA^(key): /ɐjin/

Borrowed from English iron, from Middle English iren, a rhotacism of Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną, from Gaulish īsarno-, from Proto-Celtic *īsarno-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēsh₂r̥no- (“bloody, red”), from *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).

ain

1. flatiron, clothes iron

ain

1. (intransitive) (neutral) to iron

Borrowed from English irons.

ain

1. handcuffs, shackles, irons

   Polis kin doadoahngki ain.

   Policemen use handcuffs.

• ayn
• awn, awin (obsolete)

From Middle English aȝen, from Old English āgen, ǣġen (“one's own”), or possibly from Old Norse eiginn (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”). More at own.

• IPA^(key): /eːn/

ain

1. Belonging to, or on behalf of, a specified person (especially oneself); own.

   Ma ain dear sister ― My own dear sister

   Clap, clap handies, Mammie's wee, wee ain.

• nain (Shetland)

• “ain, adj., n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qaqay, compare Nias ahe and Malay kaki.

ain

1. leg

From English iron.

ain

1. iron; steel

• ainõ

From Proto-Finnic *aina.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑin/, [ˈɑin]
• Rhymes: -ɑin
• Hyphenation: ain

ain

1. always
2. incessantly

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “aina”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn

ain

1. Obsolete spelling of áayin