teinn

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Irish

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Adjective

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teinn (genitive singular feminine teinne, plural teinne, comparative teinne)

  1. Superseded spelling of tinn.

Declension

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Adjective

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teinn

  1. (archaic) inflection of teann:
    1. vocative/genitive singular masculine
    2. dative singular feminine

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
teinn theinn dteinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *tainaz. Cognate with Old English tān. For the divination aspect see Old English tānhlyta.

Noun

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teinn m (genitive teins, plural teinar)

  1. twig, branch
    • Hymiskviða, st. 1/3–4
      hristu teina · ok á hlaut sǫ́u
      fundu at Ægis · ørkost hvera.
      they shook the twigs and looked at the divination;
      they found [out through the divination that] at Ægir’s home [there was] an immense choice of cauldrons.
  2. sprout

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: teinn
  • Faroese: teinur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tein; (dialectal) teidn, tæn
    • Norwegian Bokmål: tein
  • Old Swedish: tēn
  • Danish: ten
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ten