dain

== Cimbrian == === Alternative forms === doi (Luserna) === Etymology === From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn. Cognate with German dein, West Frisian dyn, English thine, Icelandic þinn. === Determiner === dain (plural dain, bón/dar daindarn) (Sette Comuni) (familiar) your, thy De dain faméja is gròas. ― Your family is large. De dain hénte zeint plaabe. ― Your hands are blue. De dain triildar zeint ròat. ― Your lips are red. An prùudar bón daindarn ist ziich. ― One of your brothers is sick. yours, thine De khua ist dain. ― The cow is yours. ==== Usage notes ==== The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners: They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case). Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar). The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n. Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used. Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn. ==== Inflection ==== ==== See also ==== === References === “dain” 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 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== dain alternative form of deyne === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== dain (East Anglia) alternative form of theyn == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French dain. === Noun === dain m (plural dains) deer ==== Synonyms ==== cerf ==== Descendants ==== French: daim == Northern Sami == === Determiner === dain locative plural of dat == Old French == === Alternative forms === daim === Etymology === For earlier daim, from Late Latin dāmus, from Latin damma (“deer, antelope”). === Noun === dain oblique singular, m (oblique plural dainz, nominative singular dainz, nominative plural dain) deer ==== Synonyms ==== cerf ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: dainFrench: daim Poitevin-Saintongeais: din Walloon: din → Catalan: daina → Middle Dutch: deen, dein Dutch: dein, deyn (obsolete) → Old Frisian: *deim West Frisian: deim → Italian: daino → Old Spanish: dayne === References === Thun, Nils (1968), “Germanic words for deer”, in Studia Neophilologica, volume 40, A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandeln, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 101.