lyne

lyne (countable and uncountable, plural lynes)

1. Obsolete form of line.
2. Obsolete form of linen.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     Nor any weaver, which his work doth boast
     In diaper, in damask, or in lyne,
     Might in their diverse cunning ever dare
     With this so curious net-work to compare.

• -enyl, enyl, leyn

See lyn (“lightning”)

• IPA^(key): /lyːnə/, [ˈlyːnə]

lyne (imperative lyn, infinitive at lyne, present tense lyner, past tense lynede, perfect tense er/har lynet)

1. zip (to close with a zip fastener)
2. lighten, lightning (to produce lightning)

• lyn, line, lin, lynye, lyny

From Old English līne, from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”).

• IPA^(key): /liːn/, /lin/
• Rhymes: -iːn

lyne (uncountable)

1. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers.
2. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown and spun for use in textiles.
3. Cloth woven from flax; linen.

• flex

• English: line, linseed (in compound with seed)
• Yola: leen

• “lī̆n, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

lyne

1. Alternative form of loyne (“loins”)

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynnen

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːn(ə)/

lyne

1. Alternative form of lynde

lyne

1. Alternative form of linnen

• IPA^(key): /²lyː.nə/

From lyn n (“lightning”).

• ljona, lyna

lyne (present tense lyner, past tense lynte, past participle lynt, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyn)

1. (impersonal, intransitive) to produce lightning

   det lyner

   it is lightning

2. (intransitive) to emit one or more flashes, to gleam
3. (intransitive, of eyes, idiomatic) to light up (in rage)
4. (intransitive) to flash; to move very fast

   han lynte forbi meg

   he flashed past me

From the adjective ly (“lew, tepid”).

• lyna

lyne (present tense lynar, past tense lyna, past participle lyna, passive infinitive lynast, present participle lynande, imperative lyne/lyn)

1. (ergative) to lew

• “lyne” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “lyne” in The Ordnett Dictionary

• ylen