lenn
Breton
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Breton lenn, leenn (originally a noun), from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum. Cognate with Welsh llên, Cornish lien.
Verb
editlenn
- (transitive) to read
Conjugation
editPersonal 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
editEtymology 2
editFrom Middle Breton lenn, from Old Breton lin, from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Cognate with Welsh llyn, Cornish lynn, Irish linn, Gaulish lindon.
Noun
editlenn f (plural lennoù or lenneier)
Etymology 3
editFrom Old Breton lenn, from Proto-Celtic *linnā (“cloak, veil”). Cognate with Welsh llen, Cornish len, Irish leann, Gaulish linna.
Noun
editlenn f (plural lennoù)
Hungarian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLexicalization of le (“down”) + -n (case suffix), lengthening the final -n. First attested in 1821.[1]
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editlenn (comparative lejjebb or lennebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglennebb or leglentebb, only the first being common for both)
Usage notes
editNever declined. Some suffixes can be attached to its alternative form, lent, e.g. lentről, lenti.
Derived terms
editReferences
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
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.[1]
Noun
editlenn 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
editFeminine 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
editPronoun
editlenn
- 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
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lenn also llenn after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
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- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romansch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.
Noun
editlenn m
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