FromMiddle High Germandīn, fromOld High Germandīn. Cognate withGermandein,West Frisiandyn,Englishthine,Icelandicþinn.
dain (pluraldain,bón/dardaindarn)(Sette Comuni)(familiar)
- your,thy
- Dedain faméja is gròas. ―Your family is large.
- Dedain hénte zeint plaabe. ―Your hands are blue.
- Dedain triildar zeint ròat. ―Your lips are red.
- An prùudar bóndaindarn ist ziich. ―One ofyour brothers is sick.
- yours,thine
- De khua istdain. ―The cow isyours.
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 ofdar).
- The plural ending is-en, or-∅ when the pronoun itself ends in-n.
- Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
- Followingbon(“of”) ordar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in-darn.
These inflections are only used in exclamations.
- “dain” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
dain
- alternative form ofdeyne
dain
- (East Anglia)alternative form oftheyn
FromOld Frenchdain.
dain m (pluraldains)
- deer
dain
- locativeplural ofdat
FromLate Latindāmus, fromLatindamma(“deer, antelope”).
dainoblique singular, m (oblique pluraldainz,nominative singulardainz,nominative pluraldain)
- deer
