binn

See also: Binn.

English

Noun

binn (plural binns)

Archaic spelling of bin (storage container for wine, etc.)
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House
  Mr. Tulkinghorn sits at one of the open windows, enjoying a bottle of old port. Though a hard-grained man, close, dry, and silent, he can enjoy old wine with the best. He has a priceless binn of port in some artful cellar under the Fields, which is one of his many secrets.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

binn (genitive singular feminine binne, plural binne, comparative binne)

Declension

Declension of binn

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	binn	bhinn	binne; bhinne²
Vocative	bhinn	bhinn	binne
Genitive	bhinn	binne	binne	binn
Dative	binn; bhinn¹	bhinn	binne; bhinne²
Comparative	níos binne
Superlative	is binne

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish benn, from Proto-Celtic *bennom (“peak, top”).

Noun

binn f (genitive singular binne, nominative plural beanna)

peak, tip, summit (of a mountain or hill)
(architecture) corner, gable
pinnacle
horn
(figuratively) stanza, couplet

Declension

Declension of binn

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	binn	beanna
Vocative	a bhinn	a bheanna
Genitive	binne	beann
Dative	binn	beanna

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bhinn	na beanna
Genitive	na binne	na mbeann
Dative	leis an mbinn don bhinn	leis na beanna

Derived terms

binn siosúir f (“blade of scissors”)
biorbheannach m (“pronghorn”)

Related terms

beann

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
binn	bhinn	mbinn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"binn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“benn (‘peak; horn’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old English

Etymology

From a Celtic language

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbinn/

Noun

binn f

stall

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /piːɲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”).

Adjective

binn

melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet

Èisd ris an òran binn nan eun. ― Listen to the sweet song of the birds.
shrill
harmonious

Etymology 2

Noun

binn f (genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

(law) sentence, judgement, verdict, decision, condemnation
fate
melody
hopper of a mill

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse birna, from Proto-Germanic *bernijǭ, from *berô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²bɪnː/, /²be̯ɪnː/

Noun

binn f

female bear, she-bear

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