lenn
Breton edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Breton lenn, leenn (originally a noun), from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum. Cognate with Welsh llên, Cornish lien.
Verb edit
lenn
- (transitive) to read
Conjugation edit
Personal forms | |||||||
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Indicative | Conditional | Imperative | |||||
Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Future | Present | Imperfect | ||
1s | lennan | lennen | lennis | lennin | lennfen | lennjen | - |
2s | lennez | lennes | lennjout | lenni | lennfes | lennjes | lenn |
3s | lenn | lenne | lennas | lenno | lennfe | lennje | lennet |
1p | lennomp | lennemp | lennjomp | lennimp | lennfemp | lennjemp | lennomp |
2p | lennit | lennec'h | lennjoc'h | lennot | lennfec'h | lennjec'h | lennit |
3p | lennont | lennent | lennjont | lennint | lennfent | lennjent | lennent |
0 | lenner | lenned | lennjod | lennor | lennfed | lennjed | - |
Impersonal forms | Mutated forms | ||||||
Infinitive | lenn | Soft mutation after a | a lenn- | ||||
Present participle | lenn | Mixed mutation after e | e lenn- | ||||
Past participle | lennet (auxiliary verb: kaout) | Soft mutation after ne/na | ne/na lenn- |
References edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Breton lenn, from Old Breton lin, from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Cognate with Welsh llyn, Cornish lynn, Irish linn, Gaulish lindon.
Noun edit
lenn f (plural lennoù or lenneier)
Etymology 3 edit
From Old Breton lenn, from Proto-Celtic *linnā (“cloak, veil”). Cognate with Welsh llen, Cornish len, Irish leann, Gaulish linna.
Noun edit
lenn f (plural lennoù)
Hungarian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Lexicalization of le (“down”) + -n (case suffix), lengthening the final -n. First attested in 1821.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
lenn (comparative lejjebb or lennebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglennebb or leglentebb, only the first being common for both)
Usage notes edit
Never declined. Some suffixes can be attached to its alternative form, lent, e.g. lentről, lenti.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ lenn in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading edit
- lenn in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.[1]
Noun edit
lenn f
- cloak
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 51b9
- lenn nó brat formtha
- a mantle or cloak of the covering
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 51b9
Inflection edit
Feminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lennL | leinnL | lennaH |
Vocative | lennL | leinnL | lennaH |
Accusative | leinnN | leinnL | lennaH |
Genitive | leinneH | lennL | lennN |
Dative | leinnL | lennaib | lennaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
lenn
- first-person plural of la
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4a27
- Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut.
- So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 4a27
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lenn also llenn after a proclitic |
lenn pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*linnā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 240
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 lenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.
Noun edit
lenn m