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See also: INN, Inn, -inn, and inn-

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

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inn (plural inns)

  1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lodging place
  2. A tavern.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub
  3. 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
  4. (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
    Leicester Inn
  5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

See also

Anagrams

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

  1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) in

Derived terms

Adverb

inn

  1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside
    Synonym: indar
  2. (Sette Comuni) east
    Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.
    I'm going east to Asiago.

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

German

Preposition

inn [with dative (indicating location) or accusative (indicating movement)]

  1. Obsolete spelling of in.

Gothic

Romanization

inn

  1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

Icelandic

Adverb

inn

  1. in, inside
    Hvenær komumst við inn?
    When can we get inside?

Derived terms

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of finn, from French finir (“finish”).

Pronunciation

Verb

inn (medial form inn)

  1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense.

Middle English

Noun

inn

  1. 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

  1. inside, in (indicating movement into)
    La oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
  2. in, into
    Hun gikk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse inn.

Pronunciation

Adverb

inn

  1. inside, in (indicating movement into)
    Lat oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.
  2. in, into
    Ho gjekk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

Derived terms

References

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

Adverb

inn

  1. in (with allative direction)
  2. inside (with allative direction)
    Hit ongann riġnan, þȳ iċ ēode inn.
    It started raining, so I went inside.
Antonyms

Etymology 2

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

Noun

inn n

  1. inn

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”).

Adverb

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)

  1. in, into
Descendants
  • Icelandic: inn
  • Faroese: inn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: inn
  • Old Swedish: in
    • Swedish: in
  • Danish: ind
    • Norwegian Bokmål: inn

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

inn (feminine in, neuter it)

  1. 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
More information singular, masculine ...
Declension of inn
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative inn in it, iþ
accusative inn ina it, iþ
dative inum inni inu
genitive ins innar ins
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative inir inar in
accusative ina inar in
dative inum inum inum
genitive inna inna inna
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Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “inn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

inn m

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Skolt Sami

Etymology

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Noun

inn

  1. night

Inflection

More information Even â-stem, nˈn-nn gradation, Nominative ...
Even â-stem, nˈn-nn gradation
Nominative inn
Genitive iinn
Singular Plural
Nominative inn iinn
Accusative iinn iinnid
Genitive iinn iinni
Illative iʹnne iinnid
Locative iinnâst iinnin
Comitative iinnin iinnivuiʹm
Abessive iinntää iinnitää
Essive innân
Partitive innâd
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person — — —
2nd person — — —
3rd person — — —
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Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tedim Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).

Pronunciation

Noun

inn

  1. house

References

  • Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

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