gini

 

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From English gin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡini/, [ˈɡini]
• Rhymes: -ini
• Hyphenation^(key): gi‧ni

gini

1. gin

• “gini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• (nonstandard) gni

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *nɯi⁴ (“two”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-ni-s (“two”). Cognate with Tibetan གཉིས (gnyis), Burmese နှစ် (hnac).

gini

1. two

• gining

• Rhymes: -ɪːnɪ

gini

1. first-person singular past subjunctive of gína
2. third-person singular past subjunctive of gína

gini

1. thus, this way, like this

Borrowed from Romani ʒanel (“to know”).

a gini (third-person singular present ginește, past participle ginit) 4th conj.

1. (slang) to notice, to glimpse

English guinea

gini m (genitive singular gini, plural ginidhean)

1. guinea (coin)

Borrowed from English guinea.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪnɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪni/

gini f (plural ginïau or ginis)

1. guinea (coin)

• Like many other unnaturalised, g-initial words, gini does not undergo soft mutation. Conversely, gini always undergoes nasal mutation to ngini. For a similar examples, see golff, gêm and glwten.

• ffyrling (“farthing”)
• dimai (“halfpenny”)
• ceiniog (“penny”)
• dwygeiniog (“twopence, tuppence”)
• chwecheiniog (“sixpence”)
• swllt (“shilling”)
• hanner coron (“half-crown”)
• coron (“crown”)
• sofren (“sovereign”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gini”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies