rin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rin"

Translingual

Symbol

rin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nungu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nungu terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.

Verb

rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinning, simple past ran, past participle run)

1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To run.
   • 1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, volume 1, John Macrone, page 314:

     "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it. […] ."

   • a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page 211:

     O! gin I were where Gadie^{[the name of a rivulet]} rins,

   • 1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,

     I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

Derived terms

• rinner

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

Noun

rin (plural rin)

1. A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.

Anagrams

• INR, N. Ir., NIR, NRI, Nri, RNI

Arigidi

Pronoun

rin

1. you, second person singular pronoun, as object

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

rin

1. accusative of ri

See also

Esperanto personal pronouns

		singular				plural
		nominative	accusative	possessive		nominative	accusative	possessive
first person		mi	min	mia		ni	nin	nia
second person	formal	vi	vin	via		vi	vin	via
	familiar1	ci	cin	cia
third person	masculine	li	lin	lia		ili iŝi3	ilin iŝin3	ilia iŝia3
	feminine	ŝi	ŝin	ŝia
	neuter	ĝi	ĝin	ĝia
	gender-neutral2	ri ŝli	rin ŝlin	ria ŝlia
	reflexive	si	sin	sia		si	sin	sia
indefinite		oni	onin	onia		oni	onin	onia

¹ The second-person familiar pronouns are rare.

² The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

³ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

Galician

Verb

rin

1. inflection of rir:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. first-person singular preterite indicative

German

Adverb

rin

1. (regional, colloquial) alternative form of rein (“inside”)

   Rin in die gute Stube! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 1929, Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Olten; Freiburg im Breisgau: Walter Verlag, published 1961, →ISBN, page 170:

     Ja, nu man rin, immer man rin, Kinderchen, das kleene Frauchen auch, ist woll bedudelt, hat recht, goldrecht hat die.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “rin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Japanese

Romanization

rin

1. Rōmaji transcription of りん
2. Rōmaji transcription of リン