lende

• lend m — dialectal, earlier form
• len, land — Gheg
• lënde, lëndë — Tosk
• linde — Gjirokastër
• lëndre — Arvanitika
• vlendë — dialectal

Uncertain. The original form was likely lend m and lende arose as a back-formation from its plural. The variant with vl- is almost certainly secondary.

1. Akin to other Indo-European terms for “lentil”, such as Latin lēns, lentis, Lithuanian lę̃šis, German Linse, though the ultimate origin is unclear.^[1][2]
2. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin glāns, glandis (“acorn”), whence actually gjëndër (“gland”),^[3][4] although the initial l- would be left unexplained.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlende/
• Rhymes: -ende

lende f (plural lende, definite lendja, definite plural lendet)

1. acorn

   Synonym: gogël

2. cone (conifer fruit)

   Synonym: boçe

• “lénd/e,~ja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2] (in Albanian), 1980, page 963b
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lênd […] lênde”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 241a
• Chekrezi, C. A. (1923) “acorn”, in English–Albanian Dictionary, Boston, page 2a
• Leotti, Angelo (1916) “len”, in L'albanese parlato (in Italian), Milan: U. Hoepli, page 110
• Weigand, Gustav (1914) “len”, in Albanesisch–deutsches und deutsch–albanesisches Wörterbuch (in German), Leipzig: J. A. Barth, page 47a
• Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “λϳε̯νdε̯-α”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikòn tês Albanikês glṓssēs] (in Greek), Athens, page 203
• Jungg, G. (1895) “lenn”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 68b
• Rossi, F. (1875) “lènd”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 731ab
• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 29: “glans, ghianda — lend”

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• Hyphenation: len‧de

From Middle Dutch lenden, from Old Dutch lendin, from Proto-Germanic *landį̄.

lende f (plural lenden or lendenen, diminutive lendetje n)

1. loin, bottom part of the back
2. flank, side

• Afrikaans: lende
• Skepi Creole Dutch: lent

From Middle Dutch lende, shortening of *gelende, an unattested variant form of gelande, from lant (“land”).

lende m (plural lenden or lendenen, diminutive lendetje n)

1. fellow countryman
2. (close) neighbour

• aangelande
• gebuur, buur

• delen, leden

lende

1. partitive plural of lend

   Synonym: lendusid

From Old English lendenu, lendinu pl, from Proto-Germanic *landijō, *landį̄, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-.

Cognate with Dutch lendenen pl (“loins”), German Lende (“haunch, loin”), Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Icelandic lend (“loin”). More at loin.

• leend, leende, lynde

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːnd(ə)/, /ˈlɛnd(ə)/

lende (plural lendes or lenden or lende)

1. (often in the plural) The (human) loins or their muscles.
2. The bottom portion of the torso.
3. The buttocks; the bottom.
4. (rare) The kidneys.

• English: lend
• Scots: lend, leynd

• “lē̆nd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

lende

1. Alternative form of lenden (“to come, to dwell”)

From the noun land.

• IPA^(key): /²lɛndə/, /²lɛnːə/

lende n (definite singular lendet, indefinite plural lende, definite plural lenda)

1. terrain

• “lende” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.