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linn ilnn lnin nlin inln niln linn ilnn lnin nlin inln niln lnni nlni lnni nlni nnli nnli innl ninl innl ninl nnil nnil

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Definitions and meaning of linn

linn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).

Noun

linn (plural linns)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade.
   • 1868 September 24, James Hardy, addressed delivered at Chirnside, quoted in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volume 5, page 386:

     The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.

   • 1894, Haliburton, Furth, 177:

     His successful angler landing the linn-lier [fish that inhabits a pool of water].

   • 1896, Crockett, Grey Man, vii:

     The running of deep water in a linn.

Alternative forms

• lin

Etymology 2

From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”), though this and linn (“pool”) have been somewhat conflated.

Noun

linn (plural linns)

1. (UK dialectal, especially Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A (small or large) waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.

Alternative forms

• lin, lyn, lynn

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German linde, from Old High German lind, lindi, from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Compare German lind.

Adjective

linn

1. (Erzgebirgisch) mild, gentle

References

Estonian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *litna. Compare Finnish linna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlinː/

Noun

linn (genitive linna, partitive linna)

1. city (large settlement)
2. (archaeology) fortified settlement

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “linn”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “linn”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “linn”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• linn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lind (“pool, lake; sea, ocean”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲiːnʲ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiːn̠ʲ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɪn̠ʲ/

Noun

linn f (genitive singular linne, nominative plural linnte)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲiːnʲ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲiːn̠ʲ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̠ʲɪn̠ʲ/

Noun

linn f (genitive singular linne)

1. space of time, period

Declension

Derived terms

• le linn (“during”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʲɪn̠ʲ/

Pronoun

linn (emphatic linne)

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “linn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 43

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪnː/

Adjective

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

1. weak

Synonyms

• svak

Further reading

• “linn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲin͈ʲ/

Pronoun

linn

1. 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. 14^c2a

   • 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. 207^b11

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʎiːɲ/

Noun

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

1. era, age, period

   Linn Ùr ― New Age

   Linn an Umha ― Bronze Age

2. century

   san 20mh linn ― in the 20th century

3. generation (genealogy)

   bho linn gu linn ― from generation to generation

4. offspring, clutch

Synonyms

• (generation): ginealach, glùn

Derived terms

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “linn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language