ain

ain

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

ain (plural ains)

1. Alternative form of ayin (“Semitic letter”)

From (Scots) Middle English aȝen.

• IPA^(key): /eːn/

ain

1. (Scotland) Own; belonging to one.
   • 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 86:

     Bobby Shaftoe's bright and fair,
     Combing down his yellow hair,
     He's my ain for evermair,
     Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.

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

Apocope

ain (poetic)

1. Alternative form of aina
   • 1968, “Käymme yhdessä ain”, in Pertti Reponen (lyrics), Wolfgang Roloff (music), Tapani Kansa, performed by Tapani Kansa, Finnish cover of Dunja, du:

     Käymme yhdessä ain
     Käymme aina rinnakkain
     Vaikka esteitä on
     Joskus tiellä kohtalon

     We will always stay together
     We will always stay side by side
     Even if at times there are
     obstacles on the road of fate

ain

1. instructive plural of aa

• 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]
• (Hevaha) 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.

• ikkää

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 6
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 17
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 38

• ayin, ayn

Romanization of Arabic عَيْن (ʕayn), 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 (ʕayn), 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

   • c. 1915, Blanche Fisher Wright, The Real Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Illustration:

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

     Clap, clap hands
     Mommy's wee, wee own.

• 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.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯n/, [ˈɑi̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯n
• Hyphenation: ain

ain

1. always
2. incessantly
3. still, anyway, nevertheless

   Synonyms: taki, aintaki

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

ain

1. Obsolete spelling of áayin