inna

See also: Inna, inną, and -inna

English

Contraction

inna

  1. (colloquial) In the.
    • 1991, The Beat
      In state-of-the-art dance hall, the bass booms like electrified tympani, the snare gets busy inna quasimilitary techno stylee []

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Anagrams


Gothic

Romanization

inna

  1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰

Hausa

Noun

innà f (possessed form innàn)

  1. mother or maternal aunt
  2. a polite term of address for any older woman
  3. in Hausa animistic religion, the royal priestess
  4. polio

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse inna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪnːa/
  • Rhymes: -ɪnːa

Verb

inna (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative innti, supine innt)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to do, to accomplish
  2. (transitive, with accusative) to tell

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • inna af hendi ("to get done, to accomplish")
  • inna eftir ("to ask about")

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Article

inna

  1. genitive singular feminine of in (triggers prothesis of an unwritten /h/ before a vowel)
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 21c3
      In tan téte a laithe di chiunn cosnaib gnimaib ⁊ cosnaib imnedaib gniter and, do·tét iarum imthánud aidche tara hæsi, co ndermanammar-ni inna imned sin i mbiam isind laithiu tri chumsanad inna aidche dod·iarmorat.
      When the day passes away with the deeds and the troubles that are done therein, then comes the alternation of night after it that we may forget those troubles in which we are in the day through the repose of the night that follows it.
  2. nominative plural feminine/neuter of in (triggers prothesis of an unwritten /h/ before a vowel)
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 27b15
      Inna ancride inna fochaide do·bertar forsin n-aís noib, ad·cobrat-sidi cumscugud fercæ Dǽ do thabairt díglae tara n-ési.
      The cruelties of the afflictions that are wrought on the saints desire the stirring of the anger of God to inflict vengeance on their behalf.
  3. accusative plural of all genders of in (triggers prothesis of an unwritten /h/ before a vowel)
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 21c3
      In tan téte a laithe di chiunn cosnaib gnimaib ⁊ cosnaib imnedaib gniter and, do·tét iarum imthánud aidche tara hæsi, co ndermanammar-ni inna imned sin i mbiam isind laithiu tri chumsanad inna aidche dod·iarmorat.
      When the day passes away with the deeds and the troubles that are done therein, then comes the alternation of night after it that we may forget those troubles in which we are in the day through the repose of the night that follows it.
  4. genitive plural of all genders of in (triggers eclipsis)
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 27b15
      Inna ancride inna fochaide do·bertar forsin n-aís noib, ad·cobrat-sidi cumscugud fercæ Dǽ do thabairt díglae tara n-ési.
      The cruelties of the afflictions that are wrought on the saints desire the stirring of the anger of God to inflict vengeance on their behalf.

Contraction

inna

  1. Contraction of i + a (in his/her/its/their).

Old Norse

Verb

inna

  1. to accomplish

Synonyms

References

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

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *in.

Adverb

inna

  1. inside
  2. indoors

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈin.na/

Pronoun

inna

  1. Nominative feminine form of inny.
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