gijn
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ɣɛi̯n/
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) A multiple-pulley block with three cheeks.
- (nautical) A heavy tackle consisting of one or two of these blocks.
Etymology
Borrowed from English gin derived from Old French engin (war machine, cleverness, engine, skill) derived from Latin ingenium (an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL).
Origin
Latin
ingenium
Gloss
an engine, nature, innate natural quality, genius, an invention, a producer, a genius, machine, LL
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
機
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- gin English
- ginhouse English
- ginless English
- ginlike English
- ginner English
- ginnery English
- ginny English
- ginshop English
- ginsoaked English
- ginwright English
- ingeny English
- gignō Latin
- ingeniarius Latin
- ingeniator Latin
- ingenium Latin
- ingeniārius Latin
- ginnare Italian
- ingegno Italian
- genever Dutch, Flemish
- engin French
- gin French
- ingénier French
- джин Russian
- ingenio Spanish, Castilian
- γιγνώσκω Ancient Greek
- *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- gim Portuguese
- gin Swedish
- ジン Japanese
- jin Irish
- engin Old French
- ĝino Esperanto
- enginy Catalan, Valencian
- τζιν Greek (modern)
- engîn Norman
- джин Bulgarian
- ג׳ין Hebrew (modern)
- džinn Estonian
- engenno Old Portuguese
- 氈酒 Chinese
- jini Swahili
- ingine Scots
- engenno Old Spanish
- gnegnu Sicilian
- engine xno
- kini Hawaiian
- jin Abenaki