lenn

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Breton

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Etymology 1

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

Verb

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lenn

  1. (transitive) to read
Conjugation
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References

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Latin Borrowings into British

Etymology 2

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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

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lenn f (plural lennoù or lenneier)

  1. lake

Etymology 3

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

Noun

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lenn f (plural lennoù)

  1. cover

Hungarian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Lexicalization of le (down) +‎ -n (case suffix), lengthening the final -n. First attested in 1821.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛnː]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: lenn
  • Rhymes: -ɛnː

Adverb

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

  1. down

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ lenn in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.[1]

Noun

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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. 51b9
      lenn nó brat formtha
      a mantle or cloak of the covering
Inflection
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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

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Pronoun

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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. 4a27
      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

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lenn
also llenn after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
lenn
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*linnā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 240

Further reading

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.

Noun

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lenn m

  1. (Sursilvan, Surmiran) wood