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

1. (transitive) to read

Conjugation

Conjugation of lenn

Personal forms
	Indicative				Conditional		Imperative
	Present	Imperfect	Preterite	Future	Present	Imperfect
1s	lennan	lennen	lennis	lennin	lennfen	lennjen	-
2s	lennez	lennes	lennjout	lenni	lennfes	lennjes	lenn
3s	lenn	lenne	lennas	lenno	lennfe	lennje	lennet
1p	lennomp	lennemp	lennjomp	lennimp	lennfemp	lennjemp	lennomp
2p	lennit	lennec'h	lennjoc'h	lennot	lennfec'h	lennjec'h	lennit
3p	lennont	lennent	lennjont	lennint	lennfent	lennjent	lennent
0	lenner	lenned	lennjod	lennor	lennfed	lennjed	-
Impersonal forms					Mutated forms
Infinitive		lenn			Soft mutation after a		a lenn-
Present participle		lenn			Mixed mutation after e		e lenn-
Past participle		lennet (auxiliary verb: kaout)			Soft mutation after ne/na		ne/na lenn-

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)

1. 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)

1. cover

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• lent

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛnː]

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• 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)

1. down

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• idelenn
• odalenn

 

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^(key): /ˈl͈ʲen͈/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.

Noun

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. 51^b9

     lenn nó brat formtha

     a mantle or cloak of the covering

Inflection

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

Pronoun

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. 4^a27

     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

Mutation of lenn

radical	lenition	nasalization
lenn also llenn after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lenn pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

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

1. (Sursilvan, Surmiran) wood