zain
English
Etymology
Noun
zain (plural zains)
- (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
- 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse:
- Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]
Anagrams
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.
Determiner
zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)
- his, her, its, their
- Dar zain zun machet in zòllander. ― His son is in the military.
- An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren. ― Their daughter is a teacher.
- his, hers, its, theirs
- De khua ist zain. ― The cow is hers.
Usage notes
The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:
- They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
- Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
- The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.
Inflection
Inflection of zain | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
zaindar | zaina | zaines | zaine | |
These inflections are only used in exclamations. |
See also
Possessive determiners | ||
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singular | plural | |
1st person | main | ögnar |
2nd person | dain | ôar |
3rd person | zain |
References
- “zain” 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
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian zaino
Pronunciation
Adjective
zain (feminine zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)
- (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.) Having no white markings
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