# egin
## Basque
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /eɡin/ [e.ɣ̞ĩn]
* Rhymes: -eɡin
* Hyphenation: e‧gin

### Verb

egin da/du/zaio (imperfect participle egiten, future participle egingo or eginen, short form egin, verbal noun egite)
* (du) to do
** to do, make, create, produce
** to cook
** to pass (time)
    Sei hilabete egin nituen basamortuan. ― I spent six months in the desert. (literally, “I did six months in the desert.”)
** to turn a certain age
    Bihar 30 urte egingo ditu. ― He/she'll be 30 tomorrow. (literally, “He/she'll do 30 years tomorrow.”)
** [with instrumental] to speak (a language)
    Egin dezagun ingelesez. ― Let's speak English.
** [with inessive] to play (a game)
    kartetan egin ― to play cards (literally, “to do in cards”)
** [with allative] to turn
** (with dezagun only) let's suppose
* (da, du) to become, to turn into
* (da) [with allative] to get accustomed to
* (zaio) to seem, to look
* (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”)
* (auxiliary) Used as a verbal intensifier.
    Etorri egin zara azkenean. ― You did come at last.
* (auxiliary, pro-verb) Refers back to a previous verb.

#### Usage notes

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

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* egin bazkari (“bon appétit”) (Souletin)
* egin-eginean (“precisely”)
* eginahal (“effort”)
* eginahal guztian
* eginahalean (“with great effort”)
* eginahaletan
* eginahalka
* eginarazi
* eginarazle
* eginbehar (“duty”)
* eginbide
* eginbidea egin
* eginbidetsu
* egindura
* eginen
* eginerraz (“easy to do”)
* egingai
* egingarri
* egingo
* eginkari
* eginkariak egin
* eginkizun
* eginkor (“efficient”)
* egintza

### Further reading

* “egin”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “egin”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Faroese
### Adjective

egin
* own

#### Usage notes

* egið forlag (“self-published”)

#### Derived terms

* eginleiki

#### Related terms

* eiga (to own)

## Manx
### Etymology

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

### Noun

egin m
* force
    er egin hene ― by sheer force
    egin ny tarraghtyn ― force of the circumstances
* rape
    egin ny Sabeenee ― the Rape of the Sabines

#### Derived terms

* shegin (“to have to”)

## Welsh
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈɛɡɪn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈeːɡɪn/, /ˈɛɡɪn/

### Noun

egin m (collective, singulative eginyn)
* shoots, sprouts, buds
* stubs
* beginnings
* offspring, progeny

#### Derived terms

* egin ffa (“beansprouts”)
* egino (“to sprout, to germinate”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “egin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies