Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. · To make a loan. · To be suitable or applicable, to fit. · To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
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- Inherited-form mentionlenenenm
- Inherited-form mentionlǣnanang
- Inherited-form mention*laihnijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*laihnijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*laihnągem-pro
- Derivation mention*leykʷ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionlensco
- Cognate mentionlienefy
- Cognate mentionlenennl
- Cognate mentionlåneda
- Cognate mentionlånasv
- Cognate mentionlánais
- Cognate mentionlénais
- Cognate mentionlinquōla
- Cognate mentionλείπωgrc
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