ginn

See also: Ginn

English

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪn/

Noun

ginn (plural ginns)

1. Alternative spelling of jinn
   • 1892, E. Cobham Brewer, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1‎^[1]:

     AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom.

   • 1886, Andrew Lang, In the Wrong Paradise‎^[2]:

     There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn."

   • 1919, Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), The Quest of the Sacred Slipper‎^[3]:

     I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪn/

Verb

ginn

1. Nonstandard form of given.
   • 1869, Charles Reade (1814-1884), Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), Foul Play‎^[4]:

     You ginn it us hot--you did.

   • 1912, Lawrence J. Burpee, Humour of the North‎^[5]:

     Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter.

Anagrams

• Gnin, Ning

Irish

ginn

Alternative forms

• ging

Etymology

From Middle Irish gend (“wedge”), from Proto-Celtic *gendis (“wedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Welsh gaing (“chisel, wedge”), Breton genn (“wedge”) within Celtic and more distantly with Latin (pre)hendō and Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō).

Pronunciation

• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɟiːn̠ʲ/

Noun

ginn f (genitive singular ginne, nominative plural geanntracha)

1. (Cois Fharraige) Synonym of ding (“wedge; thickset person”)

Declension

Declension of ginn

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ginn geanntracha Vocative a ghinn a gheanntracha Genitive ginne geanntracha Dative ginn geanntracha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ghinn na geanntracha Genitive na ginne na ngeanntracha Dative leis an nginn don ghinn leis na geanntracha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ginn	ghinn	nginn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “geinn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 359
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “genn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ginn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡin/
• Rhymes: -in

Etymology 1

From Middle High German geben, from Old High German geban, from Proto-West Germanic *geban, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną. Cognate with German geben, Dutch geven, West Frisian jaan, Danish give, Icelandic gefa.

The sense “to become” is found throughout Moselle Franconian and also (though less commonly) in Ripuarian. It can be understood as a generalization from expressions such as “wheat gives good bread” or “2 and 2 gives 4”. Compare German ergeben. Imagine also a sentence like et gëtt schéint Wieder (“there will be nice weather”), which was then turned around to d’Wieder gëtt schéin (“the wheather will be nice”). The first sentence corresponds to German es gibt schönes Wetter, but the second would be ungrammatical (*das Wetter gibt schön).

Verb

ginn (third-person singular present gëtt, preterite gouf or guff, past participle ginn, past subjunctive géif or giff, auxiliary verb hunn or sinn)

1. (transitive) to give
2. (impersonal) there be, there is, there are; used to indicate that something exists or is present
3. (intransitive) to become
4. (auxiliary) Used with the past participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice.
5. (auxiliary) Used with the past participle of any verb to form the impersonal passive voice.

Usage notes

• The perfect auxiliary is sinn for the sense “to become” and the passive auxiliary, otherwise hunn.
• The sense “there be” has two possible and interchangeable constructions: (1.) with a direct object as in German: et gëtt hei vill Kanner (“there are a lot of children here”), or (2.) with a subject: et ginn hei vill Kanner. The difference is that the verb may become plural with the second construction.

Conjugation

Irregular
infinitive	ginn
participle	ginn
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	past indicative	conditional	imperative
1st singular	ginn	gouf	géif	—
2nd singular	gëss	goufs	géifs	gëff
3rd singular	gëtt	gouf	géif	—
1st plural	ginn	goufen	géifen	—
2nd plural	gitt	gouft	géift	gitt
3rd plural	ginn	goufen	géifen	—

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ausginn
• bäiginn
• dropginn
• druginn
• duerchginn
• eraginn
• erëmginn
• erginn
• erofginn
• eropginn
• ewechginn
• fortginn
• hanneschtginn
• hierginn
• iwwerginn
• matginn
• noginn
• ofginn
• opginn
• uginn
• verginn
• zeréckginn
• zouginn

Etymology 2

Verb

ginn

1. inflection of goen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person plural present indicative

Yagara

Noun

ginn

1. girl

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.