tinne

From Middle Dutch tinne, from Proto-Germanic *tindijō (“point, peak, pinnacle”) or *tinnō, *tinnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónt- (“tooth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.nə/

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• Hyphenation: tin‧ne
• Rhymes: -ɪnə

tinne f or n (plural tinnen)

1. (architecture) merlon, cop

   Synonym: kanteel

• tand

tinne

1. inflection of tinn:
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural
   3. comparative degree

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tinne	thinne	dtinne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From tin (“soft, fat part of body”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲin͈ʲə/

tinne m

1. fletch, side of bacon or salt pork
   • c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 12, page 2: “Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri. ― [There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron.”

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tinne	thinne	tinne pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from English tin.

tinne f (plural tinnes)

1. (Jersey) tin (airtight container used to preserve food)

tinne c

1. (architecture) a merlon, a cop
   1. (architecture, in the plural) battlement, crenellation
2. a pinnacle (upright, ornamental architectural member, small tower, or the like)

   ett slott med tinnar och torn

   a castle with towers and pinnacles ["tinnar och torn" is a common alliteration]

3. (figuratively) a pinnacle, a summit ((sharp) mountain top)

Declension of tinne
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tinne	tinnen	tinnar	tinnarna
Genitive	tinnes	tinnens	tinnars	tinnarnas

• borg
• fial
• krenelering
• skottglugg
• skyttegång
• slott

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