lien

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːn/, /ˈliːən/
• 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 2003, p. 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.

• lienholder
• liensman

• 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 964384981, 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 964384981, 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 lien (“spleen”). Doublet of spleen.

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

lien (plural lienes)

1. (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

• lien on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

From Middle Cornish lyen, from Proto-Brythonic *lleɣenn, from Latin legendum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈliːɛn]

lien m (plural liennow)

1. literature

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.

• liēnis m

From Proto-Italic *liɣēn-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)liǵʰ-, from *splǵʰ-ēn- (“spleen”). The -i- remains unexplained.

Cognate with Old Irish selg, Lithuanian blužnis, Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn), Old Armenian փայծաղն (pʿaycałn), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬥-‎ (spər^əzan-), Sanskrit प्लीहन् (plīhán). Doublet of splen.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.eːn/, [ˈlʲieːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.en/, [ˈliːen]

liēn m (genitive liēnis); third declension

1. spleen

Third-declension noun.

• “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. 2nd person singular present indicative form of līst
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of līst
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of līst
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of līst
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of līst
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form 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)

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

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

From Old English lēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *leugan, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą.

lien (third-person singular simple present lieth, present participle liende, first-/third-person singular past indicative legh, past participle louen)

1. to lie (tell a falsehood)

• li, lie, lin, lighe, lighen, lige, ligen, liȝe, liȝen, liegh, lieȝe, lieȝen, le, lei, leie, leghen, legen, leȝe, leȝen, leiȝe, leiȝen
• lih, lihe, lihen, leȝen, leoȝen, leioȝen, luȝen (early)

• English: lie
• Scots: lee
• Yola: liest (sg.2)

• “līen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French lier, liier (“to tie up, connect”), from Latin ligāre (“to tie, bind”).

lien (third-person singular simple present lieth, present participle liende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle liid) (cooking)

1. to thicken (a soup, etc.) by mixing
2. to bind (ground meat, etc. with eggs, sauce, etc.)
3. to coat (something with sauce, etc.)

• li, lie

• English: lye

• “līen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle French lien (“tie, strap”), from Latin ligāmen (“bandage, band, tie”).

lien (plural liens)

1. bond, fetter

• lieine, leine

• English: lien

• “līen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

lien (plural liens)

1. Alternative form of len

From Old French lien.

lien m (plural liens)

1. tie; strap
2. (by extension) link (association)

• French: lien
• → Middle English: lien
  • English: lien

• lïen (diareses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

From Latin ligāmen.

lien m (oblique plural liens, nominative singular liens, nominative plural lien)

1. tie; strap
   • late 12th century, anonymous, La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford, page 408 (of the Champion Classiques edition of Le Roman de Tristan, →ISBN, lines 901-2:

     Brenguain, ore alez pur le chen,
     amenez k'od tut le lïen

     Brangain, go get the dog,
     bring it with its leash

• Middle French: lien
  • French: lien
  • → Middle English: lien
    • English: lien

From Latin lien.

lien n (plural lienuri)

1. spleen

lien

1. definite singular of lie.

• Elin, ilen