lind

From Middle English lind, linde, from Old English lind, from Proto-West Germanic *lindu, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

Cognate with Dutch linde, German Linde, Swedish lind. Cognate to Albanian lëndë (“wood, timber, material”).

• IPA^(key): /lɪnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnd
• Homophone: lend (pin-pen merger)

lind (plural linds)

1. (obsolete) the lime tree, or linden tree

Whatever the origin, it undisputedly a parallel formation to lej (“to give birth; to be born”).[1][2][3] Likely from Proto-Indo-European *li-né-d-ti ~ *li-n-d-énti, a nasal-infixed present from the root *leyd- (“to release”).[1][2] Alternatively from the root *h₂el- (“to grow, nourish”),[3] though the formal composition is unclear.

lind (aorist linda, participle lindur)

1. (intransitive) to be born

   Synonyms: lej, lindem

2. (transitive) to give birth, bear (child)

   Synonym: lej

• Rhymes: -end

From Old Norse lind.

lind

1. soft
2. thin

From Old Norse lind.

lind c (singular definite linden, plural indefinite linde)

1. linden, lime, basswood (Tilia)

From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta or *linta, compare with Finnish lintu, Ter Sami lonnˈt, Northern Mansi лунт (lunt) and Hungarian lúd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlind̥/, [ˈlʲind̥]
• Rhymes: -ind
• Hyphenation: lind

lind (genitive linnu, partitive lindu)

1. bird

• lind in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Middle High German linde, from Old High German lind, lindi, from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Compare English lithe.

• IPA^(key): /lɪnt/

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lind (strong nominative masculine singular linder, comparative linder, superlative am lindesten or am lindsten)

1. (archaic, poetic) mild; gentle
   • 1942, Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern […] [The World of Yesterday]‎:

     […] es war lind, hier zu leben, in dieser Atmosphäre geistiger Konzilianz, und unbewußt wurde jeder Bürger dieser Stadt zum Übernationalen, zum Kosmopolitischen, zum Weltbürger erzogen.

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• gelinde
• lindern

• Lindwurm

• “lind” in Duden online
• “lind” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /lɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Probably related to sense 2 (“linden tree”)

lind f (genitive singular lindar, nominative plural lindir)

1. spring (place where water emerges from the ground)

• (spring): uppspretta, brunnur, vatnsrás

• auðlind (“natural resource”)
• gróðalind (“profit source”)
• olíulind (“oil source”)
• orkulind (“power source”)
• tekjulind (“source of income”)

From Old Norse lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f (genitive singular lindar, nominative plural lindir)

1. lime, linden (Tilia)

• (linden): linditré

• The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. (1934). United States: Journal Publishing Company, p. 93

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

Likely from Proto-Finnic *lentädäk. i may be by analogy to "bird".

• lindõ (Courland)

lind

1. (Salaca) to fly

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

lind (plural lyndes)

1. Alternative form of lynde.

• “lind(e,, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.

From Old Norse lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f or m (definite singular linda or linden, indefinite plural linder, definite plural lindene)

1. lime, linden (Tilia)

• “lind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f (definite singular linda, indefinite plural linder, definite plural lindene)

1. lime, linden (Tilia)

• “lind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *lindu, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

• IPA^(key): /lind/

lind f (nominative plural linde)

1. lime, linden
2. (poetic) shield (made from linden wood)

• lindhæbbend

• Middle English: lynde, lynd, linde, lind, lyne, lyn
  • English: lind, lime
  • Scots: lind, lynde, leind

From Proto-Celtic *lindos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (“to flow”). The two differently-inflecting nouns are closely related, but their morphologies are mysterious.[1]

lind f (genitive linde)

1. a body of water: pool, lake
   • 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. 102^a2

     .i. lind te

     i.e. hot pool [The glossator having misunderstood Latin termes (“branch”) as being related to therma (“hot bath”)]

lind n (genitive lenda)

1. drink
   • 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. 7^d9

     […] hi sunt tra ↄricc frissa lind serb in chúrsactha, lase fo·ruillecta beóil in chalich di mil cosse anall […]

     […] Herein, then, he comes into contact with the bitter drink of the reproval, when the lips of the chalice have hitherto been smeared with honey […]

   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 6, pages 115-179:

     […] céne con·n-oither mo thimnasa insin purt-sa, nícon·ibthar lind dermait dé and.

     […] as long as my rules are upheld in this place, liquor that leads to us forgetting about God are not to be drunk.

   • 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. 73^a8

     lind ― glosses Latin liquamen (“drink”)

2. liquid
   • c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 88, pages 115-179:

     Acht is mí-chumne spiride fri télach neich din imarcraid lenda bís isind churp.

     But it is an evil recollection of the spirit, accompanying a discharge of some of the excess liquid that is usually in the body.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 129^d13-14

     ibthecha .i. it mathi inna ganema oc oul ind lenda.

     absorbent, i.e. the sands are good at absorbing the liquid.

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 linn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f

1. lime, linden (tree)
2. (poetic) linden shield, spear-shaft (weaponry or gear made from lime)

• lindi

• “lind”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Middle Low German lind, probably borrowed from Middle High German lint, from Old High German lind, from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī).

lind

1. mild, soft
2. lenient

Inherited from Old Swedish lind, from Old Norse lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

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lind c

1. linden tree

• parklind
• skogslind

• lind in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• lind in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “птица”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika