leen
See also: Leen
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leːn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: leen
- Rhymes: -eːn
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch leen, from Old Dutch *lēn, from Proto-Germanic *laihną.
Noun
leen n (plural lenen, diminutive leentje n)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- achterleen
- bruikleen
- leengoed
- leenheer
- leenman
- leenroerig
- leenstelsel
- leenverhef
- leenwezen
- zonneleen
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Anagrams
Finnish
Galician
Verb
leen
- inflection of lear:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse lœna.
Noun
leen
- A piece of grassy land in a moor or by a river, a meadow, freq. of a pasture of natural grass.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈleen/ [ˈle.ẽn]
- Rhymes: -een
- Syllabification: le‧en
Wolof
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English lyne, from Old English līne, from Proto-West Germanic *līnā.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liːn/
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52
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