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finn
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fin?]
- Hyphenation: finn
- Rhymes: -in?
Adjective
finn (not comparable)
- Finnish (of or relating to Finland, its people or language)
Declension
Noun
finn (countable and uncountable, plural finnek)
- Finn (person)
- Finnish (language)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- finn in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Waterford) IPA(key): /f?i??/
- (Cork, Kerry, Galway) IPA(key): /f?i?n??/
- (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /f??n??/
Adjective
finn
- inflection of fionn:
- vocative/genitive masculine singular
- (archaic) dative feminine singular
Noun
finn m
- genitive singular of fionn
Mutation
Mauritian Creole
Alternative forms
- inn
Etymology
From French finir (“finish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fin/
Verb
finn (medial form finn)
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense, commonly contracted to "inn" in speech.
Related terms
- fini
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
finn
- imperative of finne
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
finn
- present tense of finna and finne
- imperative of finna and finne
Old English
Alternative forms
- fin
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *finn?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /finn/, [fin]
Noun
finn m
- fin
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Leviticus 11:9
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Leviticus 11:9
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: finne, fynne, fyn
- Scots: fin, fyn
- English: fin
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- find
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”) (compare Welsh gwyn, Gaulish *windos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?in?/
Adjective
finn
- white
- bright
- blessed
Descendants
- Irish: fionn
- Manx: fynn
- Scottish Gaelic: fionn
Mutation
Swedish
Verb
finn
- imperative of finna.
finn From the web:
- what finna mean
- what finn means
- what finn never told rey
- what finn wolfhard character are you
- what finn wanted to tell rey
- what finnish sounds like
- what finna
- what finnish sounds like to foreigners
thin
English
Etymology
From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunn?, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjan? (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh?us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Sanskrit ??? (tanú, “thin”), Persian ???? (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: tin (with th-stopping), fin (with th-fronting)
Adjective
thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)
- Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
- Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- thin person
- Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Water is thinner than honey.
- Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- a thin disguise
- (aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
- 2016, Hartmut Wolf, ?Peter Forsyth, ?David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation (page 105)
- Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
- Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
- 1945, Jack Henry, What Price Crime? (page 92)
Synonyms
- (having little thickness from one surface to its opposite): narrow; see also Thesaurus:narrow
- (very narrow in all diameters): fine
- (having little body fat or flesh): reedy, skinny, slender, slim, svelte, waifish; see also Thesaurus:slender or Thesaurus:scrawny
- (of low viscosity): runny, watery; see also Thesaurus:runny
- (not close or crowded): spaced out, sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- (not numerous): scant, scarce, slight
Antonyms
- thick
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
thin (plural thins)
- (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
- Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
Translations
Verb
thin (third-person singular simple present thins, present participle thinning, simple past and past participle thinned)
- (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
- (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
- The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- To dilute.
- To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
Derived terms
- thin out
Translations
Adverb
thin (comparative more thin, superlative most thin)
- Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
- seed sown thin
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
Further reading
- thin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- thin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- thin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Nith, hint
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thin (subjective pronoun þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thy”)
Pronoun
thin (subjective þou)
- Alternative form of þin (“thine”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
thin
- Alternative form of thinne (“thin”)
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Inflection
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: dijn
- Dutch: dijn
- Limburgish: dien
Further reading
- “th?n”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði?n/
Determiner
th?n
- Alternative form of din
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
Old Saxon
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?n/
- (late Old Saxon) IPA(key): [ði?n]
Determiner
th?n
- thy, your (singular)
- thine, yours
Declension
See also
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014
- Altsächsisches Elementarbuch by Dr. F. Holthausen
Etymology 2
See here.
Determiner
thin
- instrumental singular masculine/neuter of th?
Welsh
Noun
thin
- Aspirate mutation of tin.
Mutation
thin From the web:
- what thins your blood
- what things are blue
- what things are purple
- what things can be recycled
- what things weakened the soviet union
- what things are red
- what things have gluten
- what things are green
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