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語源 1

From 中期英語 *linne, from 古期英語 hlynn (“torrent”).

名詞

linn (plural linns)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.
   • 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354:

     What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?

   • 1844 December, “The Legend of Stumpie's Brae”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 720:

     "For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn,
     "And it's up to the meadow ridge—"
     "Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,

   • 1866, John Harland, Lancashire Lyrics: Modern Songs & Ballads of the County Balatine, section 85:

     And the roaring of the linn.

   • 1896, Lewis Proudlock, The Borderland Muse, page 51:

     Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!

別の表記

• lin, lyn, lynn

語源 2

From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), or else a Brythonic source such as Cumbric *lınn, all from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).

名詞

linn (plural linns)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Wales) A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade.
   • 1812, “Poems”, in Forbes, section 49:

     There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe,
     In linns both wide and steep.

   • 1823, Galt, Gilhaize, section XXVIII:

     In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.

   • 1868 September 24, James Hardy, addressed delivered at Chirnside, quoted in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volume 5, page 386:

     The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Otto:

     A trellised path led down into the valley of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The stream was a breakneck, boiling Highland river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little precipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled in a linn. Into the middle of this quaking pool a rock protruded, shelving to a cape; and thither Otto scrambled and sat down to ponder.

   • 1894, Furth, Haliburton, section 177:

     His successful angler landing the linn-lier [fish that inhabits a pool of water].

   • 1896, Crockett, Grey Man, vii:

     The running of deep water in a linn.

別の表記

• lin

動詞

linn

1. singular imperative of linnan