binn

binn (plural binns)

1. Archaic spelling of bin (“storage container for wine, etc.”).
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     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.

• (Waterford) IPA^(key): /bʲaiɲ/
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /bʲiːnʲ/^[1]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /bʲiːn̠ʲ/^[2]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bʲɪn̠ʲ/^[3]

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”),^[4] from Proto-Celtic *bandis (“harmonious, melodious”),^[5] probably related to etymology 2 (“peak, summit”).

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

1. (of music) sweet, melodious, harmonious

From Old Irish benn,^[6] from Proto-Celtic *bandā (“peak, top”).

binn f (genitive singular binne, nominative plural beanna)

1. peak, tip, summit (of a mountain or hill)
2. (architecture) corner, gable
3. pinnacle
4. horn
5. (figuratively) stanza, couplet

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

• beann

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.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “binn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “binn”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “binn”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna).

• IPA^(key): /binn/, [bin]

binn f

1. stall

• IPA^(key): /piːɲ/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [pə̃ĩɲ]

From Old Irish bind, binn (“melodious, harmonious; sweet, pleasing”), from Proto-Celtic *bandis (“harmonious, melodious”), probably related to Irish binn (“peak, summit”).

binn (comparative binne)

1. melodious, musical, tuneful, dulcet, sweet

   èist ri òran binn nan eun ― listen to the sweet song of the birds

2. shrill
3. harmonious

From Proto-Celtic *bendi, *benni, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”), see also Sanskrit भान (bhāna, “evidence”), English ban (“public proclamation, edict”).

binn f (genitive singular binne, plural binnean)

1. (law) sentence, judgement, verdict, decision, condemnation
2. fate
3. melody
4. hopper of a mill

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “binn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “binn (‘melodious, harmonious’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language