dain

• doi (Luserna)

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn. Cognate with German dein, West Frisian dyn, English thine, Icelandic þinn.

dain (plural dain, bón/dar daindarn) (Sette Comuni) (familiar)

1. your, thy

   De dain faméja is gròas. ― Your family is large.

   De dain hénte zeint plaabe. ― Your hands are blue.

   De dain triildar zeint ròat. ― Your lips are red.

   An prùudar bón daindarn ist ziich. ― One of your brothers is sick.

2. yours, thine

   De khua ist dain. ― The cow is yours.

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 of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

• “dain” 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

dain

1. Alternative form of deyne

dain

1. (East Anglia) Alternative form of theyn

From Old French dain.

dain m (plural dains)

1. deer

• cerf

• → Catalan: daina
• French: daim

dain

1. locative plural of dat

From Late Latin dāmus, from Latin damma (“deer, antelope”).

dain oblique singular, m (oblique plural dainz, nominative singular dainz, nominative plural dain)

1. deer

• cerf

• French: daim