binse

See also: Binse

Irish

Alternative forms

  • beinnse
  • binnse, bínnse, bínse (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish beinnse,[1] from Middle English bench, from Old English benċ, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of banc.

Pronunciation

Noun

binse m (genitive singular binse, nominative plural binsí)

  1. bench (seat)
  2. (government, law) bench
  3. workbench
    Synonym: binse oibre
  4. bank, ledge

Declension

Declension of binse (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative binse binsí
vocative a bhinse a bhinsí
genitive binse binsí
dative binse binsí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an binse na binsí
genitive an bhinse na mbinsí
dative leis an mbinse
don bhinse 		leis na binsí

Derived terms

  • bacán binse m (“bench stop”)
  • barántas binse (“bench warrant”)
  • binse breithimh (“judge's bench; tribunal”)
  • binse cloiche (“ledge, shelf, of rock”)
  • binse na nAirí (“the front bench”)
  • binse profa (“test-bench”)
  • binse sáibh (“saw-bench”)
  • binse trasna (“cross-bench”)
  • binseoir m (“bencher”)
  • binsín m (diminutive)
  • bís bhinse f (“bench-vice, bench screw”)
  • deil bhinse (“bench lathe”)
  • idir barra is binse (“in open court”)
  • promhadh ar bhinse (“bench-test”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of binse
radical lenition eclipsis
binse bhinse mbinse

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bein(n)se, béinse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 41

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