linnow

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Flexible, supple. Shropshire,dialectal,especially,obsolete
    — Baynyngmaketh the skynne linnowe or soupulle.

词形变化

more linnow comparative most linnow superlative lennow alternative,archaic

词源

Uncertain; perhaps from West Midland Middle English lengh, lenghe (“length”), with vocalisation of final /x/ and the original meaning being "lengthy, slender", though some trace of both the formal and semantic development would be expected already in Middle English.
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