different between insee vs ain

English

Etymology

From in- +? see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation of German Einsehen (“recognition, observation”). Compare Old English ons?on (“to look on, observe, regard, take notice of”). More at insight.

Verb

insee (third-person singular simple present insees, present participle inseeing, simple past insaw, past participle inseen)

1. To see into; to observe acutely.
   • 1992, Victoria Harris, The incorporative consciousness of Robert Bly:

     First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone."

2. To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
   • 1990, Sandra Gilbert, Acts of attention: the poems of D.H. Lawrence:

     This process of intuitional knowledge is strikingly analogous to the process of inseeing (Einsehen) Rilke described in his letters. I love inseeing. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is to insee...

3. To inspect.

Anagrams

• Eisen, Niese, Seine, see in, seein, seein', seine, senie

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• äin

Etymology

From Middle High German ein, from Old High German ain, from Proto-West Germanic *ain, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz. Cognate with German ein, Dutch een, English one, an, Swedish en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æin/

Numeral

ain m (feminine ai, neuter ais)

1. one

Biem

Noun

ain

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Finnish

Noun

ain

1. Instructive plural form of aa.

Adverb

ain

1. (poetic) Synonym of aina

Anagrams

• ani, nai

German Low German

Alternative forms

• een
• ein
• en

Article

ain m or f (neuter air)

1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) a, an

Numeral

ain m or f (neuter air)

1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) one

See also

• acht (“eigth (8); eighth (8th)”)
• airst (“first (1st)”)

Further reading

• Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 76 [about the indefinite article, giving the nominative as masc. air, fem. ain, neut. air, compare with SHG masc./neut. ein, fem. eine with one form for masc. and neut. and another form for fem.] & 97 [about the cardinal, giving it as "1. ain(d)"]
• Ismael Tressmann, Dicionário Enciclopédico Pomerano-Português. Pomerisch-Portugijsisch Wöirbauk, 2006, p. 11 s.v. ain & air

Gothic

Romanization

ain

1. Romanization of ????????????

Inari Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

ain

1. always
2. still

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aina. Cognates with Estonian aina and Finnish aina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai?n/

Adverb

ain

1. always, on and on

Alternative forms

• aina

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 6
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[3], page 92
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[4], ?ISBN, page 38

Italian

Alternative forms

• ayin, ayn

Etymology

Romanization of Arabic ?????? (?ayn), from Proto-Semitic *?ayn- (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ajn/
• Hyphenation: àin

Noun

ain m or f (invariable)

1. ayin
   1. The name of the Arabic-script letter ?
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?
   3. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   4. The name of the Syriac-script letter ?

References

• ain in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (?ayn), from Proto-Semitic *?ayn-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *?ayVn-.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /aen/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /a?n/
• Rhymes: -aen, -en

Noun

ain (Jawi spelling ????, plural ain-ain, informal 1st possessive ainku, impolite 2nd possessive ainmu, 3rd possessive ainnya)

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

Synonyms

• (organ): mata / ????

Manx

Pronoun

ain

1. first-person plural of ec (at us)
2. (idiomatic) our

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ain m (plural ains)

1. (Jersey) fishhook

Synonyms

• cro

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Lule Sami ájn.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ajn/

Adverb

ain

1. still
2. even
3. yet

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[5], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?in

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aigan. Cognates include Old English ?gan and Old Saxon ?gan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?i?n/

Adjective

?in

1. own

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: oain

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old High German

Numeral

ain

1. (Alemannic) Alternative form of ein

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?/

Verb

·ain

1. third-person singular future/present subjunctive conjunct of aingid

Related terms

• anais (absolute)

Verb

ain

1. second-person singular imperative of aingid

Mutation

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jin/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English iron, from Middle English iren, a rhotacism of Old English ?sern, ?særn, ?ren, ?sen, from Proto-Germanic *?sarn?, from Gaulish ?sarno-, from Proto-Celtic *?sarno-, from Proto-Indo-European *h??sh?r?no- (“bloody, red”), from *h?ésh?r? (“blood”).

Noun

ain

1. flatiron, clothes iron

Verb

ain

1. (intransitive) (neutral) to iron

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English irons.

Noun

ain

1. handcuffs, shackles, irons

   Polis kin doadoahngki ain.

   Policemen use handcuffs.

Scots

Alternative forms

• ayn
• awn, awin (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English a?en, from Old English ?gen, ??en (“one's own”), or possibly from Old Norse eiginn (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”). More at own.

Determiner

ain

1. Belonging to, or on behalf of, a specified person (especially oneself); own.

Synonyms

• nain (Shetland)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English iron.

Noun

ain

1. iron; steel

Yucatec Maya

Noun

ain

1. Obsolete spelling of áayin