liño

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See also: lino, Lino, Linô, liñó, lǐno, and ḽiṋo

Galician

Alternative forms

  • lin (NE Galician)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese lỹo, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Indo-European *līno-. Cognate with Portuguese linho and Spanish lino.

Pronunciation

Noun

liño m (plural liños)

  1. linen
  2. flax

Derived terms

References

  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “liño”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “liño”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • liño” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • liño” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • liño” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.