Wiktionary

lin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lin"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

lin

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lingala.

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

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”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /lɪn/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Homophone: Lynn
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Verb edit

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

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
    • 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):
      Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
    • 1822, The Three Perils of Man, James Hogg, I. 238:
      He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See English linn.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin (plural lins)

  1. Alternative spelling of linn
    a roaring lin
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 134:
      And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring
    • c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:
      Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
    • 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":
      Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
    • 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354:
      What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
    • 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:
      A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.
    • 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:
      O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,
      But kept my heart aboon,
      Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,
      By Locher ' s roaring lin.

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin (plural lins)

  1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)
    a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
    • 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:
      […] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […]
      1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]
    • 1864, Poems, Preston, section 8:
      A yerd a gooid lin check.
    • 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:
      Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
    • 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:
      Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

References edit

Anagrams edit

Chinese edit

Etymology edit

Romanisation of 𢆡 (nin1).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Nonstandard form of 𢆡 (“nipple”).

lin

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

Usage notes edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Cornish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin linum

Noun edit

lin m (singulative linen)

  1. linen, flax

Etymology 2 edit

From Latin linea

Noun edit

lin m (plural linyow)

  1. line

Etymology 3 edit

From Proto-Celtic *lī-no-.

Noun edit

lin m (plural linyow)

  1. fluid, liquid
  2. lotion

Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

lin

  1. Soft mutation of glin.

Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

lin

  1. accusative of li; him

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French, from Latin līnum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin m (plural lins)

  1. linen
  2. flax (the plant)

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Friulian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin līnum.

Noun edit

lin m

  1. linen
  2. flax

Related terms edit

Galician edit

Verb edit

lin

  1. first-person plural preterite indicative of ler

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch lijn.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɪn]
  • Hyphenation: lin

Noun edit

lin

  1. line
    Synonym: garis
  2. band
    Synonym: pita
  3. a route, a line (of transport, especially of public transport and airlines).
    Synonyms: jalur, rute

Further reading edit

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

lin

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

Usage notes edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English edit

Noun edit

lin (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of lyne

References edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology edit

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun edit

lin n (definite singular linet)

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

Derived terms edit

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology edit

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

Noun edit

lin n (definite singular linet)

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

Derived terms edit

References edit

Old French edit

Etymology edit

From Latin linea (“a line”).

Noun edit

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

  1. line (lineage; descent)

Polish edit

 
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lin

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *linъ, further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *linjati, see Russian линь (linʹ).

Noun edit

lin m animal

  1. tench (Tinca tinca)
Declension edit
Declension of lin
singular plural
nominative lin liny
genitive lina linów
dative linowi linom
accusative lina liny
instrumental linem linami
locative linie linach
vocative linie liny

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

lin f

  1. genitive plural of lina

Further reading edit

  • lin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

Adjective edit

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

  1. even, smooth
    Synonym: neted
  2. calm, quiet
    Synonyms: calm, liniștit
  3. mild, gentle, sweet
    Synonym: blând
Declension edit
Declension of lin
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite lin lină lini line
definite linul lina linii linele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite lin line lini line
definite linului linei linelor linilor
Derived terms edit
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Bulgarian лин (lin), from Proto-Slavic *linъ.

Noun edit

lin m (plural lini)

  1. tench (Tinca tinca)
Declension edit
Declension of lin
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) lin linul (niște) lini linii
genitive/dative (unui) lin linului (unor) lini linilor
vocative linule linilor

Swedish edit

 
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lin

Etymology edit

From Old Norse lín, from Proto-Germanic *līną. Cognate with English linen.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin n

  1. flax (plant)

Declension edit

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

Related terms edit

See also edit

Venetian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin līnum. Compare Italian lino.

Noun edit

lin m (plural lini)

  1. flax
  2. linen (fibre)

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lin

  1. Soft mutation of glin.

Mutation edit

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

Noun edit

lin

  1. Soft mutation of llin.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
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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