Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to lin
Participle: linned
Gerund: linning
Indicative
Present
| I | lin |
| you | lin |
| he;she;it | lins |
| we | lin |
| you | lin |
| they | lin |
Perfect
| I | have linned |
| you | have linned |
| he;she;it | has linned |
| we | have linned |
| you | have linned |
| they | have linned |
Past
| I | linned |
| you | linned |
| he;she;it | linned |
| we | linned |
| you | linned |
| they | linned |
Pluperfect
| I | had linned |
| you | had linned |
| he;she;it | had linned |
| we | had linned |
| you | had linned |
| they | had linned |
Future
| I | will lin |
| you | will lin |
| he;she;it | will lin |
| we | will lin |
| you | will lin |
| they | will lin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have linned |
| you | will have linned |
| he;she;it | will have linned |
| we | will have linned |
| you | will have linned |
| they | will have linned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | lin |
| you | lin |
| he;she;it | lin |
| we | lin |
| you | lin |
| they | lin |
Perfect
| I | have linned |
| you | have linned |
| he;she;it | have linned |
| we | have linned |
| you | have linned |
| they | have linned |
Imperfect
| I | linned |
| you | linned |
| he;she;it | linned |
| we | linned |
| you | linned |
| they | linned |
Pluperfect
| I | had linned |
| you | had linned |
| he;she;it | had linned |
| we | had linned |
| you | had linned |
| they | had linned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would lin |
| you | would lin |
| he;she;it | would lin |
| we | would lin |
| you | would lin |
| they | would lin |
Perfect
| I | would have linned |
| you | would have linned |
| he;she;it | would have linned |
| we | would have linned |
| you | would have linned |
| they | would have linned |
Imperative
| you | lin |
| we | Let's lin |
| you | lin |
Verbs conjugated like 'lin'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'lin'
bin,
blin,
din,
fin,
gin,
in,
lain,
lib,
lid,
lie,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”). See: Middle English '
linnen', Old English '
linnan', Proto-Germanic '
*linnaną', Danish '
linne', Swedish '
linna', Icelandic '
linna'.
Sample Sentences
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Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Till all war deaun I knaw thou wad not lin. [1684, Meriton, Praise Ale, 1.46 (quoted in the EDD)]
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He never linned till he had taen away every chicken that the wife had. [1822, The Three Perils of Man, James Hogg, I. 238:]