lenn

Breton

Etymology 1

From Middle Breton lenn, leenn (originally a noun), from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum. Cognate with Welsh llên, Cornish lien.

Verb

lenn

1. (transitive) to read

Conjugation

Conjugation of lenn

		singular			plural			impersonal
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	lennan	lennez	lenn	lennomp	lennit	lennont	lenner
	preterite	lennis	lennjout	lennas	lennjomp	lennjoc'h	lennjont	lennjod
	imperfect	lennen	lennes	lenne	lennemp	lennec'h	lennent	lenned
	future	lennin	lenni	lenno	lennimp	lennot	lennint	lennor
subjunctive	present	lennfen	lennfes	lennfe	lennfemp	lennfec'h	lennfent	lennfed
	imperfect	lennjen	lennjes	lennje	lennjemp	lennjec'h	lennjent	lennjed
imperative		—	lenn	lennet	lennomp	lennit	lennent	—
non-finite forms		present participle		past participle
		lenn		lennet (auxiliary verb: kaout)

References

Latin Borrowings into British

Etymology 2

From Middle Breton lenn, from Old Breton lin, from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Cognate with Welsh llyn, Cornish lynn, Irish linn, Gaulish lindon.

Noun

lenn f (plural lennoù or lenneier)

1. lake

Etymology 3

From Old Breton lenn, from Proto-Celtic *linnā (“cloak, veil”). Cognate with Welsh llen, Cornish len, Irish leann, Gaulish linna.

Noun

lenn f (plural lennoù)

1. cover

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• lent

Etymology

Lexicalization of le (“down”) +‎ -n (case suffix), lengthening the final -n. First attested in 1821.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛnː]

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• Hyphenation: lenn
• Rhymes: -ɛnː

Adverb

lenn (comparative lejjebb or lennebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglennebb or leglentebb, only the first being common for both)

1. down

Usage notes

Never declined. Some suffixes can be attached to its alternative form, lent, e.g. lentről, lenti.

Derived terms

• idelenn
• odalenn

Further reading

• lenn in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲen͈/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.

Noun

lenn f

1. cloak
   • 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. 51^b9

     lenn nó brat formtha

     a mantle or cloak of the covering

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	lennL	leinnL	lennaH
vocative	lennL	leinnL	lennaH
accusative	leinnN	leinnL	lennaH
genitive	leinneH	lennL	lennN
dative	leinnL	lennaib	lennaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Etymology 2

Pronoun

lenn

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. 4^a27

     Is and didiu for·téit spiritus ar n-énirti-ni in tain bes n-inun accobor lenn .i. la corp et anim et la spirut.

     So it is then that the spirit helps our weakness when we have the same desire, i.e. body and soul and spirit.

Mutation

Mutation of lenn

radical	lenition	nasalization
lenn also llenn after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lenn pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romansch

Alternative forms

• lain (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• len (Sutsilvan)

Etymology

From Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.

Noun

lenn m

1. (Sursilvan, Surmiran) wood