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English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
inn (plural inns)
- Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lodging place
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 21:
- [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:
- 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.
- A tavern.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub
- 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
- (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
- Leicester Inn
- (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 12:
- Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.
Derived terms
Translations
lodging
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tavern — see tavern
Verb
inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge or house oneself.
- 1714 March 16 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Friday, March 5. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
- But where do you intend to inn to-night?
- circa 1570, Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1554/2:
- We inned at the signe of the Swan.
- 1606, Sir G. Goosecappe I, iii, in Bullen O. Pl. III:
- I never innd in the Towne but once.
- 1726, Brice's Weekly Journal, 18 February, 3:
- John Welch, Cornish Carrier, who formerly Inn'd at the Mermaid in Exon, is now removed to the Bear-Inn.
- 1885, M. J. Colquhoun, Primes in Indis, I, xiv, 217:
- I inned at the best house, the Star and Garter.
- (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).
- 2018 [1607], Thomas Middleton, Michaelmas term and a trick to catch the old one, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 27:
- I have but Inn'd my horse since, master Cockstone.
- 1710, New Map Trav. High Church Apostle, 7, quoted in 1901, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901), page 309:
- These Inn'd themselves all Night in Knights-bridge Fields.
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Anagrams
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Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- in (preposition)
Etymology
From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in. Cognate with German in, English in. The sense “east” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetan: vago dentro a Axiago (“I go east to Asiago”, literally “I go inward to Asiago”).
Preposition
inn
- (Sette Comuni, + dative) in
Derived terms
Adverb
inn
- (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside
- Synonym: indar
- (Sette Comuni) east
- Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.
- I'm going east to Asiago.
Related terms
References
- “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
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German
Preposition
inn [with dative (indicating location) or accusative (indicating movement)]
Gothic
Romanization
inn
- Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽
Icelandic
Adverb
inn
Derived terms
- brjótast inn
- draga inn
- inn við beinið
- kaupa inn
- líta inn
- líta inn á
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
inn (medial form inn)
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense.
Related terms
Middle English
Noun
inn
- Alternative form of in (“inn”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse inn (“in, into”), from Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”), from *in (“in, into”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
inn
- inside, in (indicating movement into)
- La oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
- in, into
- Hun gikk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.
Derived terms
- gripe inn
- innad
- innbefatte
- innblikk
- innbygd
- innbygger
- inndele
- innfall
- innfart
- innflytter
- innføre
- inngifte
- inngjerding
- inngravere
- inngå
- innhegning
- innhente
- inni
- innland
- innlede
- innløp
- innover
- innsamling
- innse
- innside
- innsikt
- innslag
- innspill
- innspilling
- innsprøytning
- innstifte
- innstille
- innstrømmende
- innstrømming
- innsyn
- innta
- inntak
- inntjening
- inntrenger
- innvandre
- innvie
- innånde
- male seg inn i et hjørne
References
- “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
inn
- inside, in (indicating movement into)
- Lat oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
- in, into
- Ho gjekk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.
Derived terms
References
- “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *inn.
Adverb
inn
- in (with allative direction)
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"
- Petrus cnocode forþ oþ þæt hīe hine inn lēton.
- Peter kept knocking until they let him in.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35
- Iċ wæs cuma and ġē mē inn laðodon.
- I was a stranger and you invited me in.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 7:13
- Gangaþ inn þurh þæt nearwe ġeat.
- Go in through the narrow gate.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"
- inside (with allative direction)
- Hit ongann riġnan, þȳ iċ ēode inn.
- It started raining, so I went inside.
Antonyms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Probably from inne (“in, inside”).
Noun
inn n
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Old Norse
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”).
Adverb
inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “inn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *jainaz (“that over there, yon”). Cognate with Old English ġeon, Old Frisian jen, jena, Old High German jēner, Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).
Alternative forms
Article
- the (definite article)
Usage notes
The article is often used enclitically, at the end of the noun. This later developed into the definite forms of the noun.
Declension
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “inn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Noun
inn m
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- càntich
Skolt Sami
Etymology
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Noun
inn
Inflection
Further reading
Tedim Chin
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).
Pronunciation
Noun
inn
References
- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
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