lyn

See linn.

• Rhymes: -ɪn

lyn (plural lyns)

1. Alternative form of linn (“waterfall”)

• lyn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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 (uncountable)

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