lin

• IPA^(key): /lɪn/
• Homophone: Lynn
• Rhymes: -ɪn

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”).

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.

• blin

From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn.

• linn
• lyn

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.

• -nil-, NIL, nil

lin f (singulative linen)

1. linen

lin

1. Soft mutation of glin.

• IPA^(key): /lin/

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lin

1. accusative of li; him

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

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃/

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lin m (plural lins)

1. linen
2. flax (the plant)

• ligne
• linge

• “lin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Nil

From Latin līnum.

lin m

1. linen
2. flax

• linie

lin

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ler

lin

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

• 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.

lin (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

• “lin, (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

lin n (definite singular linet)

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

• linolje
• lintøy

• “lin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

lin n (definite singular linet)

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

• linolje
• lintøy

• “lin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

1. line (lineage; descent)

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

• IPA^(key): /lʲin/

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lin m anim

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

• lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

• IPA^(key): /lin/

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

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

• (even, smooth): neted
• (calm, quiet): calm, liniștit
• (mild, gentle): blând

• liniște

• senin

• IPA^(key): /liːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

lin n

1. flax (plant)

• linberedning
• linblomma
• linfält
• linolja
• lintråd
• linne

• lina

From Latin līnum. Compare Italian lino

lin m (plural lini)

1. flax
2. linen (fibre)

• IPA^(key): /liːn/

lin

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