lind

From Old English lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō. Cognate with Dutch linde, German Linde, Swedish lind. Cognate to Albanian lëndë (“wood, timber, material”).

• IPA^(key): /lɪnd/
• Rhymes: -ɪnd

lind (plural linds)

1. (obsolete) the lime tree, or linden tree

Nasal present of lej. From Proto-Albanian *(a)liienT-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- ‘to grow, feed’. Possibly, an original present participle. Compare Old English leodan, Old Saxon liodan, Old High German liotan, Old Norse loðenn 'to grow', lind (“wellspring”).

lind (first-person singular past tense linda, participle lindur)

1. to give birth, bear (child)

• lej

From Old Norse lind.

lind

1. soft
2. thin

From Old Norse lind.

lind c (singular definite linden, plural indefinite linde)

1. linden, lime, basswood (Tilia)

From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta or *linta, compare with Finnish lintu, Ter Sami lonnˈt, Mansi лунт (lunt) and Hungarian lúd.

• IPA^(key): /lˈind̥/
• IPA^(key): /lˈinʲd̥/

lind (genitive linnu, partitive lindu)

1. bird

From Middle High German linde, from Old High German lind, lindi, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz. Compare English lithe.

• IPA^(key): /lɪnt/

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lind (comparative linder, superlative am lindesten or am lindsten)

1. (archaic, poetic) mild; gentle

• gelinde
• lindern

• Lindwurm

• lind in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /lɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɪnt

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lind f (genitive singular lindar, nominative plural lindir)

1. spring (place where water emerges from the ground)

• (spring): uppspretta, brunnur, vatnsrás

• auðlind (“natural resource”)
• gróðalind (“profit source”)
• olíulind (“oil source”)
• orkulind (“power source”)
• tekjulind (“source of income”)

From Old Norse lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f (genitive singular lindar, nominative plural lindir)

1. lime, linden (Tilia)

• (linden): linditré

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

Likely from Proto-Finnic *lentädäk. i may be by analogy to "bird".

• (Courland) lindõ

lind

1. (Salaca) to fly

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

lind (plural lyndes)

1. Alternative form of lynde.

• “lind(e, (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.

From Proto-Germanic *lindō, from Proto-Indo-European *lent- (“tree with supple branches; supple”). Cognate with Old Saxon lindia, Middle Dutch linde (Dutch linde), Old High German linta (German Linde), Old Norse lind (Swedish lind); and, from Indo-European, with Latin lentus (“supple”), Ancient Greek ἐλάτη (elátē, “spruce”), Albanian lis (“oak”) and lind (“vineyard's bud, sprout”), Russian луб (lub, “phloem”), Polish lęt (“a switch”), Lithuanian lentà (“plank”). See also līþe.

• IPA^(key): /lind/

lind f (nominative plural linde)

1. lime, linden
2. (poetic) shield (made from linden wood)

• lindhæbbend

• English: lind

From Proto-Germanic *lindō.

lind f

1. lime, linden (tree)
2. (poetic) linden shield, spear-shaft (weaponry or gear made from lime)

• lind in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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lind c

1. linden tree

From Proto-Finnic *lintu.

lind

1. bird

• kagrlind
• kegonpaniilind
• kodalind
• käbulind
• pihl'lind
• rugižlind
• toroklind
• tähklind
• vagolind
• vilulind
• lindunpoigaine

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “птица”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika