lenn

From Middle Breton lenn, leenn (originally a noun), from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum. Cognate with Welsh llên, Cornish lien.

lenn

1. (transitive) to read

Latin Borrowings into British

From Middle Breton lenn, from Old Breton lin, from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Cognate with Welsh llyn, Cornish lynn, Irish linn, Gaulish lindon.

lenn f (plural lennoù or lenneier)

1. lake

From Old Breton lenn, from Proto-Celtic *linnā (“cloak, veil”). Cognate with Welsh llen, Cornish len, Irish leann, Gaulish linna.

lenn f (plural lennoù)

1. cover

• lent

Lexicalization of le (“down”) +‎ -n (case suffix), lengthening the final -n. First attested in 1821.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛnː]

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• Hyphenation: lenn
• Rhymes: -ɛnː

lenn (comparative lejjebb or lennebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglennebb or leglentebb, only the first being common for both)

1. down

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

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲen͈/

From Proto-Celtic *linnā, of unclear origin.^[1]

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

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

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.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• lain (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• len (Sutsilvan)

From Latin lignum. Compare Ladin lën, Friulian len.

lenn m

1. (Sursilvan, Surmiran) wood