# lin
## Translingual
### Symbol

lin
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Lingala.

## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Homophone: Lynn
* Rhymes: -ɪn

#### Verb

lin (third-person singular simple present lins, present participle linning, simple past linned or lan, past participle linned or lun)
* (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
** 1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD):
    Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin.
** 1822, The Three Perils of Man, James Hogg, I. 238:He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had.

##### Derived terms

* blin

### Etymology 2

See English linn.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪn/

#### Noun

lin (plural lins)
* Alternative spelling of linn
    a roaring lin
** 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 9 p. 134:And therefore, to recount her Rivers, from their Lins (marginal gloss) Meeres or Pooles, from whence Rivers spring
** c. 1735-1801, John Millar, poem, published in 1979, William Christian Lehmann, John Millar of Glasgow, 1735-1801, page 414:
    Here the hammer's active din / Blends with sound of roaring lin.
** 1776, David Herd, George Paton, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, page 20, "Binnorie":
    Whan they came to the roaring lin, She drave unwitting Isabel in.
** 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354:What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
** 1827, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 51:
    A step farther might be on the firm earth; but more probably it would be illusive, and dash him into the roaring Lin, where he would be ingulfed at once in its furious whirlpool.
** 1861, Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant: And Other Poems, page 201:
    O ye were ne ' er the ane to fret,
    But kept my heart aboon,
    Wi ' smiles sweet as when first we met,
    By Locher ' s roaring lin.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English lin, from Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen, lint.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɪn/, /laɪn/

#### Noun

lin (plural lins)
* (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, especially in compounds) Alternative form of line (“flax, linen”)
    a lin apron, lin-break, lin-brake, a lin cap, lin-clout, lin-garn/lin-yarn, lin-man, lin-weaver/lin-webster, lin-wheel
** 1775, John Watson, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, page 16:[…] to Sowerby-bridge, about twenty-four measured miles, wheel carriages would go in one day; and on that account they concluded that the manufacture of that place, Warrington, &c. would be much readier and cheaper supplied with lin-yarn, flax, &c. from the east, […] 1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]
** 1864, Poems, Preston, section 8:A yerd a gooid lin check.
** 1866, Gilpin, Songs, 233:
    Paddeys wi' their feyne lin' ware.
** 1874 (ed. of 1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 27:
    Hoo wur stonnin' i' th' front of a weshin'-mug, wi' a lin brat afore her.

### References

* “lin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* nil, -nil-, NIL, NLI, nil-

## Chinese
### Etymology

Non-standard romanisation of 𢆡 (nin$^1$).

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): lin$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lin$^1$
*** Yale: līn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lin$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lin$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /liːn⁵⁵/

### Noun

lin
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) Nonstandard form of 𢆡 (“nipple”). (Classifier: 粒 c)

## Cornish
### Etymology 1

From Latin linum

#### Noun

lin m (singulative linen)
* linen, flax

### Etymology 2

From Latin linea

#### Noun

lin m (plural linyow)
* line

### Etymology 3

Found in Old Cornish gre-lin (“lake”), from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn, from Proto-Celtic *lī-no-.

#### Noun

lin m (plural linyow)
* fluid, liquid
* lotion

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

lin
* Soft mutation of glin.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lin/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

lin
* accusative of li; him

#### See also

| | | Singular | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Plural |
| | | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive |
| First person | First person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia |
| Second person | Formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via |
| Second person | Familiar$^1$ | ci | cin | cia | vi | vin | via |
| Third person | Masculine | li | lin | lia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Gender-neutral$^2$ | ri ŝli | rin ŝlin | ria ŝlia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia |
| Notes ||||||||
| $^1$ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic. $^2$ The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used. $^3$ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used. ||||||||

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin līnum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ̃

### Noun

lin m (plural lins)
* linen
* flax (the plant)

#### Related terms

* ligne
* linge

### Further reading

* “lin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* Nil

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin līnum.

### Noun

lin m
* linen
* flax

#### Related terms

* linie

## Galician
### Verb

lin
* first-person plural preterite indicative of ler

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch lijn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪn]
* Hyphenation: lin

### Noun

lin
* line
    Synonym: garis
* band
    Synonym: pita
* a route, a line (of transport, especially of public transport and airlines)
    Synonyms: jalur, rute

### Further reading

* “lin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Linngithigh
### Verb

lin
* past of liy; went

## Mandarin
### Romanization

lin
* Nonstandard spelling of līn.
* Nonstandard spelling of lín.
* Nonstandard spelling of lǐn.
* Nonstandard spelling of lìn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Noun

lin (uncountable)
* Alternative form of lyne

### References

* “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

### Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)
* (botany) flax
* (fabric) linen

#### Derived terms

* linolje
* lintøy

### References

* “lin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin linum, via Old Norse lín.

### Noun

lin n (definite singular linet)
* (botany) flax
* (fabric) linen

#### Derived terms

* linolje
* lintøy

### References

* “lin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːn/

### Noun

lin n
* linen, flax

#### Derived terms

* līnen
* līnland

#### Related terms

* līne

#### Descendants

* English: lin

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin linea (“a line”).

### Noun

lin oblique singular, m (oblique plural lins, nominative singular lins, nominative plural lin)
* line (lineage; descent)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlin/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: lin

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *linъ, further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *linjati, see Russian линь (linʹ).

#### Noun

lin m animal
* tench (Tinca tinca)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lin f
* genitive plural of lina

### Further reading

* lin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lin/
* Rhymes: -in
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lenus, from Latin lenis.

#### Adjective

lin m or n (feminine singular lină, masculine plural lini, feminine and neuter plural line)
* even, smooth
    Synonym: neted
* calm, quiet
    Synonyms: calm, liniștit
* mild, gentle, sweet
    Synonym: blând

##### Derived terms

* liniște

##### See also

* senin

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Bulgarian лин (lin), from Proto-Slavic *linъ.

#### Noun

lin m (plural lini)
* tench (Tinca tinca)

##### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse lín, from Proto-Germanic *līną. Cognate with English linen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːn/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

lin n
* flax (plant)

#### Related terms

* linberedning
* linblomma
* linfält
* linolja
* lintråd
* linne

#### See also

* lina

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin līnum. Compare Italian lino.

### Noun

lin m (plural lini)
* flax
* linen (fibre)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːn/

### Noun

lin
* Soft mutation of glin.

#### Mutation

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

### Noun

lin
* Soft mutation of llin.

#### Mutation

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