kinn

Lexicalization of Old Hungarian ki (“outside area”) +‎ -n (case suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈkinː]
• Hyphenation: kinn
• Rhymes: -inː

kinn (comparative kijjebb, superlative legkívül)

1. outside

   Synonyms: kint, odakint, (dialectal or literary) künn, (dialectal or literary) künt

   Antonyms: benn, bent

Suffixes can be attached only to its synonym kint: kintre, kintről, kinti.

• idekinn
• odakinn

(Expressions):

• se kinn, se benn

• kinn in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Norse kinn, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu- (“cheek”). Compare Faroese and Norwegian kinn, Danish and Swedish kind, German Kinn, Dutch kin, English chin.

• IPA^(key): /cʰɪnː/

  Rhymes: -ɪnː

kinn f (genitive singular kinnar, nominative plural kinnar)

1. cheek
   • Luke 6:29 (English, Icelandic)

     Slái þig einhver á kinnina, skaltu og bjóða hina, og taki einhver yfirhöfn þína, skaltu ekki varna honum að taka kyrtilinn líka.

     If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.

• kjammi
• vangi

kinn

1. alternative form of kin

From Old Norse kinn, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, likely from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus. Compare English chin.

• IPA^(key): /çɪnː/

  Rhymes: -ɪnː

kinn n (definite singular kinnet, indefinite plural kinn or kinner, definite plural kinna or kinnene)

1. (anatomy) cheek

   å vende det andre kinnet til ― to turn the other cheek

2. (in placenames): A steep hill(side) or slope.

• “kinn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kinn_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /çɪnː/

From Old Norse kinn f, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, likely from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.

kinn n (definite singular kinnet, indefinite plural kinn, definite plural kinna)

2. (anatomy) cheek
3. (in placenames): A steep hill(side) or slope.

• Was considered grammatically feminine until the 1959 spelling reform.
• Neuter gender has been considered standard since the 1938 spelling reform, but was allowed already in 1917.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kinn

1. imperative of kinne

• “kinn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “kinn”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “kinn” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

From Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu- (“cheek”).

kinn f (genitive kinnar, plural kinnr)

1. cheek

• Icelandic: kinn
• Faroese: kinn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kinn
• Norwegian Bokmål: kinn
• Old Swedish: kin
  • Swedish: kind
• Danish: kind

Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kinn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive