linen

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*līno-“flax”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*līną“flax”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*līnīn“made of flax”
4. Old English · inherited fromlīnen“linen", "made of flax”
5. Middle English · inherited fromlynnen
6. English todaylinen

From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.

Words from the same roots