egin

From Proto-Basque *e-gin-i, possibly related to Iberian *ekien.

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• IPA^(key): /eɡin/ [e.ɣ̞ĩn]
• Rhymes: -eɡin
• Hyphenation: e‧gin

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1. (du) to do
   1. to do, make, create, produce
   2. to cook
   3. to pass (time)

      Sei hilabete egin nituen basamortuan. ― I spent six months in the desert. (literally, “I did six months in the desert.”)

   4. to turn a certain age

      Bihar 30 urte egingo ditu. ― He/she'll be 30 tomorrow. (literally, “He/she'll do 30 years tomorrow.”)

   5. [+instrumental] to speak (a language)

      Egin dezagun ingelesez. ― Let's speak English.

   6. [+inessive] to play (a game)

   kartetan egin ― to play cards (literally, “to do in cards”)

   1. [+allative] to turn
   2. (with dezagun only) let's suppose
2. (da, du) to become, to turn into
3. (da) [+allative] to get accustomed to
4. (zaio) to seem, to look
5. (auxiliary) Used as a light verb to allow nouns to function as verbs. The resulting verbs usually take transitive auxiliaries, even when translated by intransitive verbs.

   hitz egin ― to speak (literally, “to do word”)

6. (auxiliary) Used as an verbal intensifier.

   Etorri egin zara azkenean. ― You did come at last.

7. (auxiliary, pro-verb) Refers back to a previous verb.

• The synthetic verbal forms are not archaic, but periphrastic forms with an auxiliary are more common.

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• "egin" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “egin” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

egin

1. own

• egið forlag (“self-published”)

• eginleiki

• eiga (to own)

From Old Irish éicen (“necessity, compulsion; force; violence; tyranny; difficulty, need, trouble, strait; necessitousness”).

egin m

1. force

   er egin hene ― by sheer force

   egin ny tarraghtyn ― force of the circumstances

2. rape

   egin ny Sabeenee ― the Rape of the Sabines

• shegin (“to have to”)

Proto-Celtic *akīnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) + *-iHnos.

egin m pl (singulative eginyn)

1. shoots, sprouts, buds
2. stubs
3. beginnings
4. offspring, progeny

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