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English

bainin

Bainin comes from Irish báinín ‘jacket made of white homespun woollen cloth’, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂nós ‘shiny’, and ultimately from *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeh₂-‘to shine’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeh₂nós‘shiny’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*bānos‘white’reconstructed
  4. Old Irishc. 600–900bán‘white’
  5. Irishc. 1200–presentsame form‘white’
  6. Irish, derivedc. 1200–presentbáinín‘jacket made of white homespun woollen cloth’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2003bainin

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeh₂-‘to shine’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰeh₂nós‘shiny’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*bānos‘white’reconstructed
  4. Old Irishc. 600–900bán‘white’
  5. Irishc. 1200–presentsame form‘white’
  6. Irish, derivedc. 1200–presentbáinín‘jacket made of white homespun woollen cloth’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2003bainin

Earliest quotation: 2003, Madeleine L'Engle, Luci Shaw: “For many years I developed my own variations on…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine’

phone, focus, professor, famous, fuel, ben, phase, favor, favourite, fantasy, fate, fancy, fame, photographer, emphasis, ban, phenomenon, profession, fatal, bee, fabulous, confession, confess, fairy, abandon, phantom, symphony, beacon, infant, beck, boon, eff, fab, fay, prophetic, epiphany, fable, foyer, buoy, nefarious, 129 more

Today it means

noun Undyed white homespun woolen yarn or cloth.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- / bainin

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