linn

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes. Northern-England,Scotland,Wales
    — What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
  2. A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade. Northern-England,Scotland,Wales
    — There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep.

词形变化

linns plural lin alternative lyn alternative lynn alternative linns plural lin alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).
词源 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”).
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