inn

English Online Dictionary. What means inn‎? What does inn mean?

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

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

Noun

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.

4. (British, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

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.
   • 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.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To lodge or house (someone or something).
   • 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

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

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

• denìnn

Adverb

inn

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside

   Synonym: indar

2. (Sette Comuni) east

Related terms

• innante
• innont

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

Derived terms

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in/

Verb

inn (medial form inn)

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

Related terms

• ti finn
• fini

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Hyphenation: inn
• Homophones: inn-, in

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

• “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• inn-

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse inn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inː/, /iːdn/

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

• “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inn/, [in]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

Adverb

inn

1. in (with allative direction)
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 7:13

2. inside (with allative direction)

Antonyms

• ūt

Related terms

• inne

Etymology 2

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

Noun

inn n

1. inn

Related terms

• innian

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)

1. in, into

Related terms

• í
• innan
• inni

Descendants

• Icelandic: inn
• Faroese: inn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: inn
• Old Swedish: in
  • Swedish: in
• Danish: ind
  • Norwegian Bokmål: inn

References

• “inn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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

• enn, hinn

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

References

• “inn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in/

Noun

inn m

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Related terms

• càntich

Skolt Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

inn

1. night

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tedim Chin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐn/

Noun

inn

1. house

References

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