lien

Borrowed from Middle French lien, from Latin ligāmen (“a bond”), from ligō (“tie, bind”).

• IPA^(key): /liːn/, /ˈliːən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːn, -iːən
• Homophone: lean (IPA^(key): /liːn/)

lien (plural liens)

1. (obsolete) A tendon.
2. (law) A right to take possession of a debtor’s property as security until a debt or duty is discharged.
   • 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

     […] every youth movement presents itself as loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 7:

     Bodin deemed the king of France's power as absolute in the sense that the ruler was ‘absolved’ by divine sanction from legally binding liens and restrictions.

• lyen

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪən/
• Rhymes: -aɪən

lien

1. (biblical, archaic) Alternative form of lain.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:10:

     And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done vnto vs? one of the people might lightly haue lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest haue brought guiltinesse vpon vs.”

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 5:19:

     And the Priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman, If no man haue lyen with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to vncleannesse with another in stead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse.

Borrowed from Latin liēn (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.in/, /ˈlaɪ.ən/
• Rhymes: -aɪin, -aɪən

lien (plural lienes)

2. (uncommon, possibly obsolete) The spleen.

   Synonym: milt

   • 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine:

     Li'enal. Pertaining to the lien or spleen; splenic.

   • 1914, Quain's Elements of Anatomy, volume 1, page 312:

     The lien or spleen (figs. 282 to 285) is a soft, highly vascular contractile and very elastic organ of a dark purplish colour. It is placed obliquely behind the stomach, [...]

• lienal
• lienic
• lieno-

• lien on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• LEIN, LINE, Line, Neil, Niel, Nile, line

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːɛn]

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From Middle Cornish lyen, from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum. Cognate with Welsh llên.

lien m (plural liennow)

1. literature

Possibly from Latin līnum. Cognate with Welsh lliain.

lien m (plural lienyow)

1. linen cloth
2. kerchief

Inherited from Middle French lien, from Old French lien, liem, from Latin ligāmen (“bond”), from ligō.

• IPA^(key): /ljɛ̃/

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lien m (plural liens)

1. link

• lien mort

• lier
• relier

• “lien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Latin liēn.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈliɛn/ [ˈli.ɛn]
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: li‧en

lien (plural lien-lien)

1. (anatomy, technical) spleen

   Synonyms: kura, limpa

   Kista pada lien dibagi menjadi dua yaitu kista primer dan kista sekunder. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Pengukuran densitas lien dilakukan pada CT abdomen sebelum dan sesudah pemberian bahan kontras. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• “lien” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• liēnis m

From Proto-Indo-European, reflecting a form *(s)li(ǵʰ)-ēn-, from the root *spelǵʰ- (“spleen”), heavily distorted in all of its descendants, likely for tabooistic reasons,^[1] making the exact original PIE form hard to pin down. The newly introduced -i- is seemingly also found in the Sanskrit cognate प्लीहन् (plīhán), the fall of *-h- < *-ǵʰ- is also observed in Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn),^[2] while the loss of *-p- is also visible in Proto-Slavic *selzenь.

Other cognates include Middle Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʻaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥- (spər^əzan-). Doublet of splēn.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈli.eːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈliː.en]

liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension

1. spleen

Third-declension noun.

• → English: lien, lieno-; ⇒ lienal, lienic
• → Esperanto: lieno
• → Indonesian: lien
• → Romanian: lien

• “lien”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lien in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lien

1. inflection of līst:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of līst
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of līst

Derived from Proto-Finnic *laihna, from a Germanic borrowing. Related to Finnish lainata. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

lien

1. (Salaca) give a loan

From Old Dutch *līan, from Proto-Germanic [Term?].

liën

1. (transitive) to admit
2. (transitive) to acknowledge, to be convinced
3. (transitive) to declare
4. (intransitive) to assent

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Dutch līan, from Proto-West Germanic *līhwan, from Proto-Germanic *līhwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ-.

liën

1. (eastern) to lend

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• “liën (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “liën (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page liën
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “liën (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page liën

From Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną.

• lie, li, lin, ligh, liȝ, liȝe, liȝen, lig, lige, ligen, liken, likken, liȝȝe, ligge, liggen, luggen
• licgen, liȝge (Early Middle English)

lien (third-person singular simple present lith, present participle liende, first-/third-person singular past indicative leie, past participle leien)

1. to lie (be in a horizontal position)
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 19–20:

     Bifil that in that seson, on a day, / In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay

     It happened that, in that season, on a day / In Southwark, at the Tabard, as I lay

• English: lie, lig
• Scots: lie
• Yola: lee, lidge

• “līen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.