beinn

From Old Norse beinn, from Proto-Germanic *bainaz.

• IPA^(key): /peitn/
• Rhymes: -eitn

beinn (comparative beinni, superlative beinastur)

1. straight, right

   Maðurinn stendur beinn.

   The man stands straight.

2. (television) live

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲein̠ʲ/[1]

beinn

1. first-person singular past subjunctive of bí

From Old Irish benn (“peak, point, prong, pinnacle”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”).

beinn m (genitive singular beinnee, plural beinnyn or binn)

1. mountain

   Synonyms: muyne, slieau

2. ben
3. summit, pinnacle, apex

   Synonyms: ard-veinn, baare, mullagh

4. tine of deer

• ·beind

·beinn

1. inflection of at·tá:
   1. first-person singular conditional
   2. first-person singular past subjunctive

From Proto-Germanic *bainaz.

beinn (comparative beinari, superlative beinastr)

1. straight, right
2. hospitable

• “beinn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From bein n (“bone, leg”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą, also from *bainaz.

beinn

1. (in compounds) -legged

• berbeinn (“bare-legged”)
• digrbeinn (“thick-legged”)

• -beinn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Old Irish benn (“peak, point, pinnacle”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”). Doublet of beann.

• IPA^(key): /peiɲ/, /pɤiɲ/

beinn f (genitive singular beinne, plural beanntan)

1. mountain, hill

   Synonyms: monadh, sliabh

   mar an ceò thall air a' bheinn ― as the distant mist on the hill

2. pinnacle
3. bin
4. head, top, high place

• beinn-theine
• eigh-bheinn

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “beinn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC