linn
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).
Noun
editlinn (plural linns)
- (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.
- 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, 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, pages 353–354:
- What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
- 1844 December, “The Legend of Stumpie's Brae”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 720:
- "For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn,
"And it's up to the meadow ridge—"
"Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
- 1866, John Harland, Lancashire Lyrics: Modern Songs & Ballads of the County Balatine, section 85:
- And the roaring of the linn.
- 1896, Lewis Proudlock, The Borderland Muse, page 51:
- Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!
Alternative forms
editEtymology 2
editFrom Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).
Noun
editlinn (plural linns)
- (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade.
- 1812, “Poems”, in Forbes, section 49:
- There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe,
In linns both wide and steep.
- 1823, Galt, Gilhaize, section XXVIII:
- In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
- 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.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Otto:
- A trellised path led down into the valley of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The stream was a breakneck, boiling Highland river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little precipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled in a linn. Into the middle of this quaking pool a rock protruded, shelving to a cape; and thither Otto scrambled and sat down to ponder.
- 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
editEast Central German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German linde, from Old High German lind, lindi, from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Compare German lind.
Adjective
editlinn
References
editEstonian
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Finnic *litna. Compare Finnish linna.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlinn (genitive linna, partitive linna)
- city (large settlement)
- (archaeology) fortified settlement
Declension
editDeclension of linn (ÕS type 22u/leib, length gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | ||
nominative | linn | linnad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | linna | ||
genitive | linnade | ||
partitive | linna | linnu linnasid | |
illative | linna linnasse |
linnadesse linnusse | |
inessive | linnas | linnades linnus | |
elative | linnast | linnadest linnust | |
allative | linnale | linnadele linnule | |
adessive | linnal | linnadel linnul | |
ablative | linnalt | linnadelt linnult | |
translative | linnaks | linnadeks linnuks | |
terminative | linnani | linnadeni | |
essive | linnana | linnadena | |
abessive | linnata | linnadeta | |
comitative | linnaga | linnadega |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “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
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Irish lind (“pool, lake; sea, ocean”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlinn f (genitive singular linne, nominative plural linnte)
Declension
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Derived terms
edit- linn chalaidh (“harbour creek”)
- linn éisc (“fish-pond”)
- linn lachan (“duck-pond”)
- linn mhuilinn (“mill-pond”)
- linn snámha (“swimming pool”)
- linn trá (“sandy creek”)
- linneach
Etymology 2
editFrom Old Irish linn (“period, space of time”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlinn f (genitive singular linne)
Declension
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Derived terms
edit- le linn (“during”)
Etymology 3
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editlinn (emphatic linne)
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “linn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 43
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editUncertain. Possibly from Old Norse *linnr, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Related to linnorm.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editlinn (masculine and feminine lin, neuter lint, definite singular and plural linne, comparative linnare, indefinite superlative linnast, definite superlative linnaste)
Synonyms
editFurther reading
edit- “linn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editlinn
Old Irish
editPronunciation
editPronoun
editlinn
- 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. 14c2a
- Gigeste-si Día linn ara·fulsam ar fochidi.
- You pl will pray to God for us so that we may endure our sufferings.
- 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. 207b11
- Cit comṡuidigthi la Grécu ní écen dúnni beta comṡuidigthi linn.
- Although they are compounds in Greek (lit. “with the Greeks”), it is not necessary for us that they be compounds in our language (lit. “with us”).
- 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. 14c2a
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish linn (“period, space of time”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlinn m or f (genitive singular linn or linne, plural linntean)
- era, age, period
- Linn Ùr ― New Age
- Linn an Umha ― Bronze Age
- century
- san 20mh linn ― in the 20th century
- generation (genealogy)
- bho linn gu linn ― from generation to generation
- offspring, clutch
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- Linn Ùr na Cloiche (“New Stone Age, Neolithic Period”)
- Na Linntean Dorcha (“Dark Ages”)
- Na Linntean Meadhanach (“Middle Ages”)
- ri linn (“during; because of; with regard to”)
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “linn”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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