dain

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate with German dein, West Frisian dyn, English thine, Icelandic þinn.

dain (plural dain, bón/dar daindarn) (Sette Comuni, informal)

1. your, thy

   De dain faméja is gròas.

   Your family is large.

   An prùudar bón daindarn ist ziich.

   One of your brothers is sick.

2. yours, thine

   De khua ist dain.

   The cow is yours.

• Possessive determiners are only fully inflected when used in exclamations.
• 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.

• “dain” 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

Late Latin dāmus

dain m (plural dains)

1. deer

• cerf

• French: daim

dain

1. locative plural of dat

Late Latin dāmus

dain m (oblique plural dainz, nominative singular dainz, nominative plural dain)

1. deer

• cerf

• French: daim