*līnǭ

Runic: ᛚᛁᚾᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈliː.nɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

line, chord, rope, string

Etymology

From *līną (‘flax’), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (‘flax’). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic льнъ (lĭnŭ) (lĭnŭ, ‘flax’), Lithuanian linai, linas (‘flax’), Latin līnum (‘flax, thread, linen, cable’), Latin līnea (‘linen, string, chord, thread’), Old Irish lín (‘flax, linen, thread, net’), Ancient Greek λίνον (línon) (línon, ‘flax, linen, thread, garment’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	līnǭ	līnōniz
Acc.	līnōnų	līnōnunz
Gen.	līnōniz	līnōnǫ̂
Dat.	līnōni	līnōmaz
Inst.	līnōnē	līnōmiz
Voc.	līnǭ	līnōniz

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Descendants

*līnā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *līna (Old Dutch)
  - line (Middle Dutch)
    - lijn, linnen (Dutch)
*līnā (Proto-West Germanic)
- līne (Old English)
  - line (Middle English)
    - line (English)
    - line (Scots)
*līnā (Proto-West Germanic)
- līne (Old Frisian)
  - liin (North Frisian)
  - Liene (Saterland Frisian)
  - line (West Frisian)
*līnā (Proto-West Germanic)
- līna (Old High German)
  - līne (Middle High German)
    - Leine (German)
    - Léngt (Luxembourgish)
    - lina (Polish)
*līnā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *līna (Old Saxon)
  - lîne (Middle Low German)
    - Lien (German Low German)
lína (Old Norse)
- line (Danish)
- lína (Faroese)
- lína (Icelandic)
- line (Norwegian Bokmål)
- line (Norwegian Nynorsk)
lína (Old Norse)
- līna (Old Swedish)
  - lina (Swedish)

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