Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align. · To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify. · To form a line along. · To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their dialogue and needs to be prompted with it.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *līno-der.? Proto-Germanic *līną Proto-Germanic *līnǭ Proto-West Germanic *līnā Old English līne Middle English line English line From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen. The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
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This page abbreviates 6 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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"To form a line along.",
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