Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

 >>         "Diin" means religion, though "yawmu d-diini" refers to the
 >> day of judgement.  Anyway, 'diin' appears in a lot of names.
 >
 >What about <adiin> though? Is that even possible phonotacticly, without a
 >glottal stop to start it off?

        Some words start with a glottal stop at the beginning of a
word, but assimilate away when following a vowel.  So, yawmu d-diin,
from the normal ad-diin (the 'l' of al- assimilates with dental and
sibilant sounds, including 'l' and 'r').  However, these glottal
stopless word initials only occur in grammatical situations like that,
no content words, with the possible exception of 'ismu' "name."

        So, I don't think "adiin" means anything.  But, I'm not sure
what exactly you're asking any longer. :)

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wm