inn

See also: INN, Inn, -inn, and inn-

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭn, IPA^(key): /ɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophone: in

Noun

inn (plural inns)

1. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lodging place

   • 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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pub

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

   Leicester Inn

5. (obsolete) A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• coaching inn
• coach inn
• Cross Inn
• innyard
• motor inn
• New Inn
• no room at the inn
• Tram Inn

 

Translations

lodging

• Albanian: mriz (sq) m, bujtinë (sq) f, han (sq) m
• Arabic: خَان m (ḵān), إِسْتِرَاحَة f (ʔistirāḥa)
• Armenian: հյուրանոց (hy) (hyuranocʻ)
• Azerbaijani: mehmanxana
• Bashkir: ҡунаҡхана (qunaqxana)
• Belarusian: гасці́ніца f (hascínica), карчма́ f (karčmá)
• Bulgarian: хан (bg) m (han), кръчма́ (bg) f (krǎčmá)
• Burmese: တည်းခိုခန်း (my) (tany:hkuihkan:)
• Catalan: posada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 旅社 (leoi⁵ se⁵), 客棧／客栈 (haak³ zaan^6-2)

  Gan: ^{(please verify)} 旅社 (li³ sa⁵)

  Hakka: 客店 (hak-tiam)

  Hokkien: 旅社 (zh-min-nan) (lí-siā, lú-siā)

  Mandarin: 旅社 (zh) (lǚshè), 客棧／客栈 (zh) (kèzhàn), 旅店 (zh) (lǚdiàn)

• Coptic: ⲡⲁⲛⲧⲟⲭⲓⲟⲛ m (pantokhion)
• Czech: hostinec (cs) m, ubytovna (cs) f
• Danish: kro c
• Dutch: herberg (nl) m
• Esperanto: gastejo
• Estonian: trahter (et), võõrastemaja (et), kõrts (et)
• Faroese: vertshús n, gistingarhús n, herbergi n
• Finnish: majatalo (fi), matkustajakoti (fi), matkakoti
• French: auberge (fr) f
• Galician: pousada (gl) f, albergue (gl) m, albergaría f, hospedaxe f
• Georgian: სასტუმრო (sasṭumro)
• German: Herberge (de) f
• Greek: πανδοχείο (el) n (pandocheío)

  Ancient: πανδοκεῖον n (pandokeîon)

• Hebrew: פֻּנְדָק \ פונדק (he) m (pundák)
• Hindi: सराय (hi) m (sarāy), धर्मशाला (hi) f (dharmaśālā), पथिकाश्रय (hi) (pathikāśray), मरहला (hi) (marahlā), मुसाफ़िरख़ाना (musāfirxānā), मेहमानख़ाना (mehmānxānā), पांथशाला (hi) (pānthśālā), यात्री-निवास (yātrī-nivās)
• Hungarian: fogadó (hu), vendégfogadó (hu), szálló (hu), vendégház (hu), panzió (hu), szállás (hu), szálláshely (hu)
• Icelandic: gistihús n, krá (is) f, gistiheimili n
• Ido: albergo (io)
• Indonesian: rumah inap
• Irish: teach ósta m
• Italian: osteria (it) f, locanda (it) f
• Japanese: 宿屋 (ja) (やどや, yadoya), (Japanese style) 旅館 (ja) (りょかん, ryokan)
• Kazakh: мейманхана (meimanxana), қонақ үй (qonaq üi)
• Khmer: ភោជនាគារ (km) (phoocĕəʼniəkiə), សណ្ឋាគារ (km) (sɑnthaakiə), ហោតិល (km) (haotəl), ផ្ទះសំណាក់ (phtĕəh sɑmnak)
• Korean: 여관(旅館) (ko) (yeogwan), 주막(酒幕) (ko) (jumak)
• Kyrgyz: трактир (traktir), мейманкана (ky) (meymankana), конокүй (konoküy)
• Lao: ໂຮງແຮມ (lo) (hōng hǣm)
• Latin: dēversorium n, dēverticulum n, caupōna (la) f, hospitāculum n, hospitium n
• Latvian: viesnīca f, krogs m
• Lithuanian: karčema f, smuklė f
• Macedonian: ан m (an), конак m (konak), гостилница f (gostilnica), крчма f (krčma)
• Malay: rumah penginapan, inapan pinggir
• Maori: wharetira
• Mòcheno: birtshaus n
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хотоос зайдуу орших зочид буудал (xotoos zajduu oršix zočid buudal), дэн буудал (den buudal)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kro m or f, gjestgiveri n, vertshus n

• Occitan: aubèrja (oc) f
• Ottoman Turkish: میخانه (meyhane)
• Persian: مِهْمانْسَرا (fa) (mehmânsarâ), مُسافِرخانِه (fa) (mosâferxâne), مِهْمانْخانِه (fa) (mehmânxâne)
• Polabian: albargă f
• Polish: zajazd (pl) m, karczma (pl) f
• Portuguese: albergue (pt) m, pousada (pt) f
• Romanian: han (ro) n
• Russian: тракти́р (ru) m (traktír), гости́ница (ru) f (gostínica), (dated) постоя́лый двор (ru) m (postojályj dvor), корчма́ (ru) f (korčmá) (dated or regional)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гостио́ница f

  Roman: gostiónica (sh) f

• Sicilian: fùnnacu (scn) m, astirìa f
• Slovak: hostinec (sk) m
• Slovene: gostilna f, gostišče (sl) n
• Spanish: posada (es) f, venta (es) f (archaic), fonda (es) f, mesón (es) m
• Swedish: gästgiveri (sv) n, värdshus (sv) n, krog (sv) c
• Tajik: трактир (traktir), меҳмонхона (mehmonxona), майхона (mayxona), меҳмонсарой (mehmonsaroy)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: кунакханә (tt) (qunaqxanä)
• Telugu: హోటలు (hōṭalu), ధాభా (dhābhā)
• Thai: โรงเตี๊ยม (th) (roong-dtíiam)
• Turkish: han (tr), konak (tr), meyhane (tr)
• Turkmen: myhmanhana
• Ukrainian: тракти́р m (traktýr), готе́ль (uk) m (hotélʹ), корчма́ f (korčmá)
• Urdu: مُسافِر خانَہ m (musāfir xāna), مِہْمان سَرا m (mihmān sarā), مِہْمان خانَہ m (mihmān xāna)
• Uyghur: مېھمانخانا (mëhmanxana)
• Uzbek: mehmonxona (uz)
• Vietnamese: quán trọ (vi), khách sạn (vi)

tavern — see tavern

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To house; to lodge.
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (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?

See also

• bed and breakfast
• guesthouse
• hostel
• hotel
• motel

Anagrams

• NIN, NNI, Nin, nin

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• in (preposition)

Etymology

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”).

Preposition

inn

1. (Sette Comuni, + dative) in

Derived terms

• denìnn

Adverb

inn

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) inside

   Synonym: indar

2. (Sette Comuni) east

   Ich ghéa inn ka Sléeghe.

   I'm going east to Asiago.

Related terms

• innante
• innont

References

• “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

German

Preposition

inn

1. Obsolete spelling of in

Gothic

Romanization

inn

1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌽𐌽

Icelandic

Adverb

inn

1. in, inside

   Hvenær komumst við inn?

   When can we get inside?

Derived terms

Derived terms

• brjótast inn
• draga inn
• inn við beinið
• kaupa inn
• líta inn
• líta inn á

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in/

Verb

inn (medial form inn)

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

Related terms

• ti finn
• fini

Middle English

Noun

inn

1. Alternative form of in (“inn”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn/

• Audio

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

Adverb

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.

Derived terms

• gripe inn
• innad
• innbefatte
• innblikk
• innbygd
• innbygger
• inndele
• innfall
• innfart
• innflytter
• innføre
• inngifte
• inngjerding
• inngravere
• inngå
• innhegning
• innhente
• inni
• innland
• innlede
• innløp
• innover
• innsamling
• innse
• innside
• innsikt
• innslag
• innspill
• innspilling
• innsprøytning
• innstifte
• innstille
• innstrømmende
• innstrømming
• innsyn
• innta
• inntak
• inntjening
• inntrenger
• innvandre
• innvie
• innånde
• male seg inn i et hjørne

 

References

• “inn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• inn-

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse inn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnː/

Adverb

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.

Derived terms

• gripa inn, gripe inn
• innavl
• innblikk
• innbygd
• innfall
• innfart
• inngifte
• innhegning
• innhente
• inni
• innland
• innlaup
• innløp
• innover
• innsamling
• innside
• innsikt
• innslag
• innstille
• innsyn
• inntak
• innvie

 

References

• “inn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inn/, [in]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *inn.

Adverb

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.

Antonyms

• ūt

Related terms

• inne

Etymology 2

Probably from inne (“in, inside”).

Noun

inn n

1. inn

Related terms

• innian

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

inn (comparative innarr, superlative innstr)

1. in, into

Related terms

• í
• innan
• inni

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: inn

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• enn, hinn

Article

inn (feminine in, neuter it)

1. the (definite article)

Usage notes

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

Declension

    Declension of inn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	inn	in	it, iþ
accusative	inn	ina	it, iþ
dative	inum	inni	inu
genitive	ins	innar	ins
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	inir	inar	in
accusative	ina	inar	in
dative	inum	inum	inum
genitive	inna	inna	inna

References

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

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in/

Noun

inn m

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Related terms

• càntich

Skolt Sami

Etymology

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

Noun

inn

1. night

Inflection

Even â-stem, nˈn-nn gradation
Nominative	inn
Genitive	iinn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inn	iinn
Accusative	iinn	iinnid
Genitive	iinn	iinni
Illative	iʹnne	iinnid
Locative	iinnâst	iinnin
Comitative	iinnin	iinnivuiʹm
Abessive	iinntää	iinnitää
Essive	innân
Partitive	innâd
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Tedim Chin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐn/

Noun

inn

1. house

References

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