inn

From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Adventure of My Uncle”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 21:

     [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

2. A tavern.
3. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.

   the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns

4. (Britain, dated) The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 62, recto:

     For who so wolde senge a cattes skyn / Thanne wolde the cat wel dwellen in his In

     For if someone wants to singe a cat’s skin, the cat would rather stay in its house.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 44, verso:

     But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33, page 12:

     Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.

• (pub): See also Thesaurus:pub
• (lodging place): See also Thesaurus:lodging place

inn (third-person singular simple present inns, present participle inning, simple past and past participle inned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To house; to lodge.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 29, verso:

     […] Whan he hadde broght hem ǁ in to his citee / and Inned hem ǁ […]

     […] when he had brought them into his city and lodged them, […]

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take lodging; to lodge.
   • 1714 March 16 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 22. Friday, March 5. [1714.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:

     But where do you intend to inn to-night?

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

• in (preposition)

From Middle High German in, from Old High German in, from Proto-Germanic *in. Cognate with German in, English in. The sense “east” may be reinforced by or a semantic loan from Venetian: vago dentro a Axiago (“I go east to Asiago”, literally “I go inward to Asiago”).

inn

1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) in

• denìnn

inn

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside

   Synonym: indar

2. (Sette Comuni) east

   Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.

   I'm going east to Asiago.

• innante
• innont

• “inn” 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

inn

1. Obsolete spelling of in

inn

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

inn

1. in, inside

   Hvenær komumst við inn?

   When can we get inside?

Contraction of finn, from French finir (“finish”).

• IPA^(key): /in/

inn (medial form inn)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense.

• ti finn
• fini

inn

1. Alternative form of in (“inn”)

From Old Norse inn (“in, into”), from Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”), from *in (“in, into”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Hyphenation: inn
• Homophones: inn-, in

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   La oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Hun gikk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

• “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• inn-

From Old Norse inn.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnː/

inn

1. inside, in (indicating movement into)

   Lat oss gå inn. ― Let's go inside.

2. in, into

   Ho gjekk inn i huset. ― She went into the house.

• “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /inn/, [in]

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

inn

1. in (with allative direction)
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Festival of St. Peter the Apostle"

     Petrus cnocode forþ oþ þæt hīe hine inn lēton.

     Peter kept knocking until they let him in.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 25:35

     Iċ wæs cuma and ġē mē inn laðodon.

     I was a stranger and you invited me in.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 7:13

     Gangaþ inn þurh þæt nearwe ġeat.

     Go in through the narrow gate.

2. inside (with allative direction)

   Hit ongann riġnan, þȳ iċ ēode inn.

   It started raining, so I went inside.

• ūt

• inne

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

inn n

1. inn

• innian

From Proto-Germanic *inn (“in, into”).

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)

1. in, into

• í
• innan
• inni

• Norwegian Bokmål: inn

• “inn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *jainaz (“that over there, yon”). Cognate with Old English ġeon, Old Frisian jen, jena, Old High German jēner, Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

• enn, hinn

inn (feminine in, neuter it)

1. the (definite article)

The article is often used enclitically, at the end of the noun. This later developed into the definite forms of the noun.

• “inn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): /in/

inn m

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inn

1. night

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ʔim, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kim (“house, womb”).

• IPA^(key): /ǐn/

inn

1. house

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip