eingehin

Eingehin is a term attested only sporadically in older German texts and is considered archaic in contemporary usage. It appears as an adjectival or adverbial form in Early Modern German spellings, conveying a sense related to thoroughness or detail, akin to the modern words eingehend or eingehend in meaning.

Etymology and history

The form likely arises from older orthographic practices and from the verb family around eingeh- (to go into, to be thorough). In the succession from Middle High German to Early New High German, spelling variants without the terminal -d were not uncommon, and eingehin is sometimes encountered in scholarly editions of historical writings. Today, the standard modern forms are eingehend (adv. or attributive adjective) and die eingehende Beschreibung (the in-depth description).

Usage and examples

In modern German, eingehin is rarely if ever used, and its appearance is typically restricted to historical quotations, philological apparatus, or dialectal material. When it does occur, it functions as a historical variant where modern editors would render the phrase with eingehend or a similarly derived form. For example, a historical text might show a phrase that contemporary editors would render as eine eingehende Beschreibung, whereas eingehin might appear in the original spelling. Readers should treat eingehin as a historical relic rather than a productive modern form.

Relation to related terms

Eingehin is closely related to eingehend, which in modern German carries the common sense of thorough, detailed, or in-depth. The related verb compounds eingehing, eingehen, and their modern derivatives are used in contemporary prose, while eingehin is kept to historical references. See also eingehend and eingehen for current usage.

Note: Because 'eingehin' is rare and archaic, consult historical dictionaries or corpus editions when encountering it in primary sources.