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benne

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See also: Benne, bénne, and Bënne

English

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Etymology

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From Malay bene, or possibly from Wolof or Eastern Maninkakan.

Noun

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benne (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly attributive) Sesame.
    benne oil; benne seed
    • 2003, Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods!, page 15:
      Benne (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.
    • 2010, Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850, page 62:
      For example, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted benne.
    • 2013, David S. Shields, “Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil”, in John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby, editors, The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, page 65:
      A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society. […] African Anerican farming of benne can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to benne’s importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.

French

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Alternative forms

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  • banne (with deviating meaning development)

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin benna, from Gaulish bennā.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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benne f (plural bennes)

  1. bin, skip
    benne à ordures ― garbage skip
  2. dump truck
  3. barrow, carrying basket
  4. cable car, telecabin

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German Low German

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Adverb

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benne

  1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) inside

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Hungarian

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Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed suffix who? what? this that he/she
(it)*
case v. pr. c.
nom. – ki mi ez az ő* / -∅
az / -∅		 – –
acc. -t / -ot /
-at / -et / -öt		 kit mit ezt azt őt* / -∅
azt / -∅		 – c1
c2
dat. -nak / -nek kinek minek ennek annak neki neki- c
ins. -val / -vel kivel mivel ezzel/
evvel		 azzal/
avval		 vele c
c-f. -ért kiért miért ezért azért érte – c
tra. -vá / -vé kivé mivé ezzé azzá – – c
ter. -ig – meddig eddig addig – – c
e-f. -ként (kiként) (miként) ekként akként – – c
e-m. -ul / -ül – – – – – – c
ine. -ban / -ben kiben miben ebben abban benne – c
sup. -n/-on/-en/-ön kin min ezen azon rajta (rajta-) c
ade. -nál / -nél kinél minél ennél annál nála – c
ill. -ba / -be kibe mibe ebbe abba bele bele- c
sub. -ra / -re kire mire erre arra rá rá- c
all. -hoz/-hez/-höz kihez mihez ehhez ahhoz hozzá hozzá- c
el. -ból / -ből kiből miből ebből abból belőle – c
del. -ról / -ről kiről miről erről arról róla – c
abl. -tól / -től kitől mitől ettől attól tőle – c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be
construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

Etymology

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From the adverb benn +‎ -e (possessive suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbɛnːɛ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ben‧ne
  • Rhymes: -nɛ

Pronoun

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benne

  1. inside someone or something, in him/her/it, him/her/it
    A: Itt van egy doboz. B: Mi van benne? ― A: Here is a box. B: What’s in it?
    Nem bíznak benne. ― They don’t trust her.
    Nincs benne harag. ― He doesn’t have any anger in him.
  2. (used with van, colloquial) to be game, ready, willing (to participate or open to some deal or agreement)

Declension

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Inflection of benne
person singular plural
1st bennem / énbennem bennünk / mibennünk
2nd benned / tebenned bennetek / tibennetek
3rd benne / őbenne bennük / őbennük

Derived terms

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Expressions
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Eőry, Vilma. Értelmező szótár+ (“Explanatory Dictionary Plus”). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2007. →ISBN

Further reading

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  • benne in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • benne in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Italian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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benne f

  1. plural of benna

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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benne

  1. inflection of benn:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural
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