Lexeme – Details – lin

Lexeme

Transcription
lin
Script
IPA
Meaning
flax; linen
Meaning Note
Grammatical Data
Note
Also: lien 'linen, canvass, cloth' (WH) CDB thinks that W. lliain and Br. Lien may be cognate with Lat. līnum, "though the formation is obscure" (CDB).

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Sources

Source
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series. ids.clld.org
[IDS]
Source
Buck, C., D. (1949). A dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo–European languages: a contribution to the history of ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[CDB]
Source
Michiel de Vaan. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages. Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online. Edited by Alexander Lubotsky. Brill. Brill Online.
[MDV]
Source
Walde, Alois. (1910). Lateinische etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2. umgearb. Aufl. Heidelberg: C. Winter
[WH]
Source
Robert Farren, PIE culture words collection, 2017
[Farren (2017)]
Location
AEC73

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