linen的词源

英文词源

linen

linen: [OE] The word for ‘flax’ is an ancient one, shared by numerous Indo-European languages: Greek līnon, Latin līnum (source of English line), and prehistoric West Germanic *līnam among them. The latter passed into Old English as līn, but now survives only in the compound linseed (literally ‘flax-seed’). Its adjectival derivative, however, *līnīn, lives on in the form linen, nowadays used as a noun meaning ‘cloth made from flax’.

The Latin word, or its French descendants lin or linge, have contributed several other derivatives to English, including crinoline, lingerie [19] (literally ‘linen garments’), linnet [16] (etymologically a ‘flaxeating bird’), linoleum [19], and lint [14].
=> crinoline, line, lingerie, linnet, linoleum, lint

linen (n.)

"cloth from woven flax," early 14c.; earlier as an adjective, "made of flax" (c. 1200), from Old English linin (adj.) "made of flax," from lin "flax, linen thread, cloth," from Proto-Germanic *linam (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old High German lin "flax, linen," German Leinen "linen," Gothic lein "linen cloth"), probably an early borrowing from Latin linum "flax, linen," which, along with Greek linon is from a non-Indo-European language.

中文词源

linen：亚麻布

来自拉丁语linum,亚麻，黄麻，词源同line,linseed.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：linen 词源，linen 含义。

linen：亚麻制品，亚麻布

来源于拉丁语lin.um(亚麻,亚麻线)。

词根词缀： -lin-亚麻线 + -en制(质)的

同源词：align, lineage, lineal, lineament, line, liner