gine

See also: Gine, gine-, and ginę

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaɪn/

Verb

gine

  1. (Northern England, Virginia, obsolete) Alternative form of gwine

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪn/

Noun

gine (plural gines)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gin (“machine”)

Danish

Noun

gine c (singular definite ginen, plural indefinite giner)

  1. mannequin, dummy

Declension
Declension of gine
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gine ginen giner ginerne
genitive gines ginens giners ginernes

Descendants
  • → Icelandic: gína

Further reading

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɟɪnʲə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English guinea.

Noun

gine m (genitive singular gine, nominative plural giní)

  1. (historical) guinea (coin worth 21 shillings)
Declension
Declension of gine

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gine giní
Vocative a ghine a ghiní
Genitive gine giní
Dative gine giní

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gine na giní
Genitive an ghine na nginí
Dative leis an ngine

don ghine

 leis na giní

Etymology 2

See gin.

Noun

gine

  1. genitive singular of gin

Verb

gine

  1. present subjunctive analytic of gin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gine ghine ngine
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

gine f (genitive singular gine, plural gineachan)

  1. gene
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