rann

Borrowed from Old Irish rann.

• IPA^(key): /ɹæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Homophone: ran

rann (plural ranns)

1. A stanza of Irish poetry.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Our greatest living phonetic expert (wild horses shall not drag it from us!) has left no stone unturned in his efforts to delucidate and compare the verse recited and has found it bears a striking resemblance (the italics are ours) to the ranns of ancient Celtic bards.

• nRNA

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrasnā. Compare Welsh rhan; Breton rann; Old Irish rann (whence Irish rann, roinn, Scottish Gaelic rann, roinn).

rann m (plural rannow)

1. part, section
2. portion, share

rann

1. some

• IPA^(key): /ranː/
• Rhymes: -anː

From Old Norse rann, from Proto-Germanic *razną.

rann n (genitive singular rans, plural rann)

1. (poetic) house, home

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

rann f (genitive singular rannar, plural rannir)

1. (geology) a layer in a coal mine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rann

1. first/third-person singular past of renna

• IPA^(key): /ʁan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Homophone: ran

rann

1. first/third-person singular preterite of rinnen

rann

1. romanization of 𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌽

• IPA^(key): /ranː/

  Rhymes: -anː

From Old Norse rann, from Proto-Germanic *razną.

• rannur

rann n (genitive singular ranns, nominative plural rönn)

1. (poetic) house, home

rann (strong)

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of renna

• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɾˠan̪ˠ/

From Old Irish rann, rand (“quatrain”).

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rainn)

1. (poetry) quatrain
2. (poetry) stanza, verse

• rannaíocht f (“versification; form of verse”)
• rannaire² m (“versifier, rhymer”)
• ranntach (“versicular; fond of rhymes”, adjective)

From Old Irish rann (“part (of a whole); party, side, adherent”).

rann m (genitive singular rainn, nominative plural rannta)

1. (literary) party, side (in a dispute)
2. (literary, in the plural) adherents, partisans, confederates
3. (mathematics) partition

• rannach¹ (“apportioning, sharing; open-handed”, adjective)
• rannaire¹ m (“food-distributor, carver”)
• rannán m (“(military) division”)
• rannóg f (“section”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rann

1. genitive plural of roinn

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rann, rand”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

rann

1. past of renna

• IPA^(key): /rɑnn/, [rɑn]

rann

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of rinnan

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrasnā.

• IPA^(key): [r͈an͈]

rann f (genitive rainne, nominative plural ranna)

1. part (of a whole)

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c13

  Is rán din deacht ad·gén-sa ꝉ is ran⟨n⟩ indiumsa ad·géuin in deacht .i. anima tantum adid·géuin

  It is a part of the godhead that I know or it is a part in me that knows the godhead, i.e. the soul as such knows it

• rannaid
• randatu
• ranngabáil

• Irish: rann
• Manx: rheynn
• Scottish Gaelic: rann

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish rann.

• IPA^(key): /rˠaun̪ˠ/

rann m (genitive singular rainn, plural rannan)

1. part, section, portion
2. (poetry) verse, stanza, rhyme

• (part): roinn

• às na ceithir ranna ruadha (“from all corners of the earth, from all four corners of the world”, literally “from the four red parts”)
• rann-phàirt f (“participle”)

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “rann”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 rann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 rann, rand”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

rann

1. past indicative of rinna