bain - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”).
bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)
- (now chiefly dialectal) Ready; willing.
- (now chiefly dialectal) Direct; near; short; gain.
That is the bainest way.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Limber; pliant; flexible.
bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)
From Middle English bayne~baine, from Old French bain, from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagnio, balaneion, and banya.
bain (plural bains)
- (obsolete) A bath.
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene / […] / So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber / and there whyles Gouernail and Heles attendyd vpon Tramtryst
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bain ?
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
From Middle High German wīn, from Old High German wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum. Cognate with German Wein, English wine.
bain m
- (Sette Comuni, Tredici Comuni) wine
- Dar bain ist och gamacht mettar baimarn. ― The wine is also made with grapes. (Sette Comuni dialect)
- “bain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Inherited from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagne.
bain m (plural bains)
- “bain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Compare Pangasinan baing
baín (Kur-itan spelling ᜊᜁᜈ᜔)
From a conflation of Old Irish benaid (“beat, strike”) and bongaid (“break, cut”),[1] [2]
bain (present analytic baineann, future analytic bainfidh, verbal noun baint, past participle bainte) (ambitransitive)
- extract from bed in ground, dig out; dig up (potatoes, etc.); mine (coal, etc.)
1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 60:
wȧn šē fatī əńḗ, ńī raudr̥ gə dønə
- [Bhain sé fataí inné, ní rabhadar go dona.]
- He dug up potatoes yesterday, they weren’t bad.
- separate from root, stem, etc.; reap, pick; cut (hay, turf, flowers, etc.), mow
- release from socket; open
- release from source; shed
- release sound; strike
- agitate
- release from hold; lift
- win
- become due
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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bain | bhain | mbain |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “benaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “boingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bain”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “bain”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
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- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) well
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) beautifully
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) yes (used to disagree with a negative statement)
bain m (plural bains)
- (Rumantsch Grischun) bain puril, (Sursilvan) bein puril
- (Rumantsch Grischun) puraria, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) purareia, (Vallader) pauraria
- (Sutsilvan) manaschi da purs
- (Surmiran) curt purila