linne

See also: Linne

English

Etymology

See linen.

Noun

linne

1. (obsolete) flax

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “linne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Lenin, Linen, linen

Irish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈlʲɪn̠ʲə/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲɪn̠ʲə/

Noun

linne

1. genitive singular of linn

Etymology 2

linn +‎ -ne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲɪn̠ʲə/

Pronoun

linne

1. first-person plural emphatic of le

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

linne

1. Alternative form of linnen

Etymology 2

Adjective

linne

1. Alternative form of lynnen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish lind

Noun

linne f (genitive singular linne, plural linneachan or linntean)

1. firth
2. pond, pool
3. waterfall

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish linne, from Middle Low German linne. Doublet of lin. Arguably a back-formation by misinterpreting archaic linnet n (adjective), from linnen c (adjective), as a noun. See Proto-West Germanic *līnīn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

linne n

1. linen
2. singlet, vest (garment worn under a shirt)

Declension

Declension of linne
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	linne	linnet	linnen	linnena
Genitive	linnes	linnets	linnens	linnenas

Derived terms

• bordslinne
• linneförråd
• linneskjorta
• linneskåp
• nattlinne
• sänglinne

References

• linne in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• linne in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• linne in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• Nilen