lin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lin"

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

Verb

lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)

  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist (from something), stop.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
      Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
  2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To cease; leave off.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn.

Alternative forms

Noun

lin (plural lins)

  1. A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
  2. A waterfall, or cataract.
    a roaring lin
  3. A steep ravine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cornish

Etymology 1

Noun

lin f (singulative linen)

  1. linen

Etymology 2

Noun

lin

  1. Soft mutation of glin.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lin/

Pronoun

lin

  1. accusative of li; him

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līno-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛ̃/
  • audio(file)

Noun

lin m (plural lins)

  1. linen
  2. flax (the plant)

Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin līnum.

Noun

lin m

  1. linen
  2. flax

Galician

Verb

lin

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

Mandarin

Romanization

lin

  1. Nonstandard spelling of līn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of lín.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of lǐn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of lìn.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

lin (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lyne

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

  1. (botany) flax
  2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)

  1. (botany) flax
  2. (fabric) linen

Derived terms

References

Old French

Noun

lin m (oblique plural lins, nominative singular lins, nominative plural lin)

  1. line (lineage; descent)

Polish

lin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʲin/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

lin m anim

  1. tench

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lin/

Adjective

lin m, n (feminine singular lină, masculine plural lini, feminine and neuter plural line)

  1. even, smooth
  2. calm, quiet
  3. mild, gentle, sweet

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Swedish

lin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

lin n

  1. flax (plant)

Declension

Declension of lin 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative lin linet — —
Genitive lins linets — —

See also

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin līnum. Compare Italian lino

Noun

lin m (plural lini)

  1. flax
  2. linen (fibre)

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːn/

Noun

lin

  1. Soft mutation of glin.
  2. Soft mutation of llin.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
glin lin nglin unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
llin lin unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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