pinn

See also: pínn

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

pinn m

  1. inflection of peann:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pinn m (definite singular pinnen, indefinite plural pinnar, definite plural pinnane)

  1. Alternative form of pinne

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *pinniz, *pinnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bendn-, *bend- (“to protrude, jut out; peak”). Cognate with Old Saxon pinn, pin (“pin; peg”), Old High German pfin, phin (“peg, pin, nail”), Middle Low German pinne (“small, long, pointed object”) (whence also late Old Norse pinni).

Noun

pinn ?

  1. pin; peg
  2. an instrument of writing; pen

Descendants
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