inn

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
   • Washington Irving

     the miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. A tavern.
3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns

4. (Britain, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.

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   • Spenser

     Therefore with me ye may take up your inn / For this same night.

• See also Thesaurus:pub

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.

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2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.

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• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in. Cognate with German in, Dutch in, English in, Icelandic í.
The sense “east” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetian: vago dentro a Axiago (“I go east to Asiago”, literally “I go inward to Asiago”).

inn

1. (Sette Comuni) in

• deninn

inn (Sette Comuni)

1. inside
2. east

   Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.

   I'm going east to Asiago.

• “inn” 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

inn

1. Obsolete spelling of in

inn

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

inn

1. in, inside

   Hvenær komumst við inn?

   When can we get inside?

inn

1. Alternative form of in (“inn”)

From Old Norse inn

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   La oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Hun gikk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

• “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse inn.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnː/

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   Lat oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Ho gjekk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

• “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

inn n

1. inn

• innian

From Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”).

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)

1. in, into

• í
• innan
• inni

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

From Proto-Germanic *jainaz (“that over there, yon”). Cognate with Old English ġeon, Old Frisian jen, jena, Old High German jēner, Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

• enn, hinn

inn (feminine in, neuter it)

1. the (definite article)

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

inn

1. night

• Entry 65684 in Álgu database