See Also: Kenyah(dictionary)

din(2) (iou) and Kenyah (iou)


din(2) (iou)



din verb. Infl. -nn-.
[Old English dynian = Old Saxon dunian, Middle High German tunen roar, rumble, Old Norse dynja come rumbling down, from Germanic base of DIN noun.]
I. verb intrans.
Of a place etc.: resound with noise. OE-E16.
Make a din; give out or be a loud confused sound. ME.
V. Woolf A familiar sound shook and trembledincreasedfairly dinned in their ears.
II. verb trans.
Assail with clamour or persistent noise. L17.
R. C. Singleton With never-ceasing words On this and that side is the hero dinned.
Repeat continually so as to weary; esp. get (a lesson etc.) into a person by continual repetition. Cf. DING verb2 1a. E18.
R. Rendell Ever since I was eighteen I've had it dinned into me I mustn't drink.

Kenyah (iou)



Kenyah noun & adjective. M19.
[Kenyah.]
A. noun. Pl. -s, same. A member of one of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting parts of Borneo and Sarawak; the Indonesian language of this people. M19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to the Kenyahs or their language. E20.