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Old English · noun

line

Normalised līne

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
weak n-stem
IPA
/ˈliː.ne/
Syllables
ˈliː · ne (2 syllables)
Modern English
linelinseedcableseriesrow

Meaning

  1. line

    Wāst þū nū þæt þū leornodest on eorþcræfte be ānre līnan āwritenre andlang middes ānes þōðres?

    Do you remember what you learned in geometry about a line drawn along the middle of a ball?

    late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

  2. rope, cable

  3. row, series

  4. direction, rule

Declension

Declension of line
SingularPlural
Nominative līnelīnan
Accusative līnanlīnan
Genitive līnanlīnena
Dative līnanlīnum

All forms (4)

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”). Akin to Old High German līna (“line”) (German Leine (“rope”)), Middle Dutch līne (“rope, cord”) (Dutch lijn (“rope”)), Old Norse līna (“cord, rope”) (Danish line (“rope, cord”)), Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”).

Descendants

line, linseed

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