лён

See also: лен, лењ, and лэн

Ket

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *dˡon (“lip”). Perhaps related to Ket лёсь (lōsʲ, “vulva”), itself from Proto-Yeniseian *dˡos ~ *dˡot (“vulva”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲoˑn˧], [ɮʲoˑn˧]

Noun

лён (lōn) n (plural лёняӈ)

1. lip

Usage notes

• Both лён and its plural лёняӈ can be used to refer to lips, especially in the Southern Ket varieties, where the latter is more common.
• Both лён and лөн are used across Ket varieties, the former representing a palatalized and the latter representing a depalatalized pronunciation of the anlaut, depending on the speaker.

Further reading

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 263

Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lína, from Proto-Indo-European *linom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lʲɵn]

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Noun

лён • (ljon) m inan (genitive льна, nominative plural льны, genitive plural льнов, relational adjective льняно́й or льно́вый)

1. flax

Declension

Declension of лён (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-b reduc) 

	singular	plural
nominative	лён ljón	льны́ lʹný
genitive	льна́ lʹná	льно́в lʹnóv
dative	льну́ lʹnú	льна́м lʹnám
accusative	лён ljón	льны́ lʹný
instrumental	льно́м lʹnóm	льна́ми lʹnámi
prepositional	льне́ lʹné	льна́х lʹnáx
locative	льну́ lʹnú

Derived terms

Compounds:

• го́рный лён m (górnyj ljon)

Further reading

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “лён”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.