lyn

lyn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Luyana.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Luyana terms

See linn.

• IPA^(key): /lɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophones: lin, linn, Lynn
• Rhymes: -ɪn

lyn (plural lyns)

1. Alternative form of linn (“waterfall”).

• “lyn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Ultimately from the root of lys (“light, bright”) (Proto-Germanic *leuhsaz).

• IPA^(key): /lyːn/, [lyːˀn]

lyn n (singular definite lynet, plural indefinite lyn)

1. lightning

lyn

1. imperative of lyne

• “lyn” in Den Danske Ordbog

lyn

1. alternative form of lyne

lyn

1. alternative form of lynde

lyn

1. alternative form of linnen

lyn n (definite singular lynet, indefinite plural lyn, definite plural lyna or lynene)

1. (a flash of) lightning

• lynkrig
• lynnedslag
• lynrask

• “lyn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• ljon

• IPA^(key): /lyːn/

lyn n (definite singular lynet, indefinite plural lyn, definite plural lyna)

1. (a flash of) lightning

• lynkrig
• lynnedslag
• lynrask

• “lyn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse lyn, ultimately from the root of lys (“light, bright”) (Proto-Germanic *leuhsaz).

• IPA^(key): /lǿʏːn /

lyn n

1. lightning

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /lɨ̞n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /lɪn/

lyn

1. soft mutation of glyn

lyn

1. soft mutation of llyn

lyn

1. ago

   twa jier lyn

   two years ago

• “lyn (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011