beinn

From Old Norse beinn.

• IPA^(key): /peitn/
• Rhymes: -eitn

beinn (comparative beinni, superlative beinastur)

1. straight, right

   Maðurinn stendur beinn.

   The man stands straight.

• bein ræða
• beint
• óbeinn

beinn

1. first-person singular past subjunctive of bí

From Old Irish benn (“peak, point, prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Celtic *benno- (“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

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “benn”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

• ·beind

·beinn

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

• Irish: bheinn

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”), from Proto-Celtic *benno- (“peak, top”).

• IPA^(key): /beiɲ/

beinn f (genitive singular beinne, plural beanntan)

1. mountain, hill

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

   Synonyms: monadh, sliabh

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

• beinn-theine
• eigh-bheinn

• 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 0 901771 92 9
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “benn”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299