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 999756093:
      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”), from Proto-Celtic *bandi-, *bando- (“harmonious, melodious”), probably related to sense 2 (“peak, summit”).

Adjective

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

  1. (of music) sweet
  2. melodious
  3. harmonious
Declension
Declension of binn
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive 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, 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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative binn beanna
Vocative a bhinn a bheanna
Genitive binne beann
Dative binn beanna

Forms with the definite article

Case 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”)
  • biorbheannach m (“pronghorn”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
binn bhinn mbinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old English

Etymology

From a Celtic language, probably Gaulish benna (“cart, carriage”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /binn/, [bin]

Noun

binn f

  1. stall

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /piːɲ/

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

binn (comparative binne)

  1. melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet
    Èisd ris an 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
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
binnbhinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse birna, from Proto-Germanic *bernijǭ, from *berô.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²bɪnː/, /²be̯ɪnː/

Noun

binn f

  1. female bear, she-bear
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