ain

See also: Ain, áin, -ain, a in, ain', and ain-

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• äin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æin/

Numeral

ain m

1. (cardinal) one

See also

• ai (feminine)
• ais (neuter)

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Biem

Noun

ain

1. woman

References

• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)
• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia (1988)

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Finnish

Noun

ain

1. Instructive plural form of aa.

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Gothic

Romanization

ain

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐌹𐌽

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Inari Sami

Adverb

ain

1. always
2. still

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Malay

ain

Etymology

From Arabic عَيْن ‎(ʿayn), from Proto-Semitic *ʿayn-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ʿayVn-.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /aen/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /aɪn/
• Rhymes: -aen, -en

Noun

ain ‎(Jawi spelling عين)

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

Synonyms

• (organ): mata / مات

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Manx

Pronoun

ain

1. first-person plural of ec (at us)
2. (idiomatically) our

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Norman

Noun

ain m ‎(plural ains)

1. (Jersey) fishhook

Synonyms

• cro

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Northern Sami

Adverb

ain

1. still
2. even
3. yet

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anʲ/

Verb

·ain

1. third-person singular future / present subjunctive conjunct of aingid

Related terms

• anais (absolute)

Verb

ain

1. second-person singular imperative of aingid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ain	unchanged	n-ain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɐin/

Etymology 1

Borrowing 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”).

Noun

ain

1. flatiron, clothes iron

Verb

ain

1. (intransitive) (neutral) to iron

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English irons

Noun

ain

1. handcuffs, shackles, irons

   Polis kin doadoahngki ain.

   Policemen use handcuffs.

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Scots

Alternative forms

• ayn
• awn, awin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English aȝen, from Old English āgen, ǣġen ‎(“one's own”), or possibly from Old Norse eiginn ‎(“own”). More at own.

Adjective

ain

1. Belonging to, or on behalf of, a specified person (especially oneself); own.

   Ma ain dear sister‎ ― My own dear sister