linha

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*līno-“flax”
2. Latin · derived fromlīnea“thread, line”
3. Old Galician-Portuguese · derived fromlinha
4. Portuguese · borrowed fromlinha“line”
5. English todaylinha

From Portuguese linha (“line”), from Old Galician-Portuguese linha, from Latin līnea (“thread, line”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Doublet of line, linea, and ligne.

Words from the same roots