بِين
bin
basic morphological information

prep.

between
между
بَيْن
LS 85; CSOL I 515; CSOL II 433
text examples

a. éraḥk bin triʰ orími wa-ˀaḷ-ˁérobk mɔn méʸhi di-šéˀke di-ḥadíboʰ ‘I reached a fork in the road (lit. I reached between two roads) and did not know which of them would bring me more quickly to Hadibo’ (CSOL I 2:22)

b. sóˀohor biníki aḷ-ḷekέb ‘The sóˀohor is between us so that I cannot enter!’ (CSOL II 25:8)

c. náˁaʰ ˁéyyek ľákɛn šarṭ bíni wa-bínak ‘Now, I’d like there to be an agreement between you and me’ (CSOL I 25:60)

root
etymology

From PWS *bayna ‘between’. An Arabism is not to be totally excluded, cf. the Arabic pronominal suffixes in the example c above. Cf. beyn.

continental MSA