linn

linn (plural linns)

1. Alternative spelling of lin
   • 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, OCLC 612459984, 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 974441451, pages 353–354:

     What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?

From Proto-Finnic *litna. Compare Finnish linna.

linn (genitive linna, partitive linna)

1. city

• pealinn

From Old Irish linn (“pool, lake; sea, ocean”).

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiːn̠ʲ/, /l̠ʲɪn̠ʲ/

linn f (genitive singular linne, nominative plural linnte)

1. pool, pond; body of water, lake, sea

From Old Irish linn (“period, space of time”).

linn f (genitive singular linne)

1. space of time, period

• le linn (“because of”)

• IPA^(key): /lʲɪn̠ʲ/

linn (emphatic linne)

1. first-person plural of le: with us, to us

• "linn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 linn”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “3 linn”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

Uncertain. Possibly from Old Norse *linnr, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Related to linnorm.

• IPA^(key): /lɪnː/

linn (masculine and feminine lin, neuter lint, definite singular and plural linne, comparative linnare, indefinite superlative linnast, definite superlative linnaste)

1. weak

• svak

• “linn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Irish linn (“period, space of time”).

linn m or f (genitive singular linn or linne, plural linntean)

1. era, age
2. century

   san 20mh linn ― in the 20th century

3. generation (genealogy)

   bho linn gu linn ― from generation to generation

• (generation): ginealach, glùn

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “3 linn”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN