# 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
* (transitive) to read

##### Conjugation
#### 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)
* 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)
* cover

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* lent

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛnː]
* Audio:(file)
* 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)
* down

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* idelenn
* odalenn

### References

* ↑ 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

* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈl͈ʲen͈/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.

#### Noun

lenn f
* 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$^b$9
    lenn nó brat formthaa mantle or cloak of the covering

##### Inflection

Feminine ā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | lenn$^L$ | leinn$^L$ | lenna$^H$ |
| Vocative | lenn$^L$ | leinn$^L$ | lenna$^H$ |
| Accusative | leinn$^N$ | leinn$^L$ | lenna$^H$ |
| Genitive | leinne$^H$ | lenn$^L$ | lenn$^N$ |
| Dative | leinn$^L$ | lennaib | lennaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

lenn
* 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$^a$27
    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.

### References

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

### 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
* (Sursilvan, Surmiran) wood