лён

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *dˡon (“lip”). Perhaps related to Ket лёсь (lōsʲ, “vulva”), itself from Proto-Yeniseian *dˡos ~ *dˡot (“vulva”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [lʲoˑn˧], [ɮʲoˑn˧]

лён (lōn) n (plural лёняӈ)

1. lip

• Both лён and its plural лёняӈ can be used to refer to lips, especially in the Southern Ket varieties, where the latter is more common.
• Both лён and лөн are used across Ket varieties, the former representing a palatalized and the latter representing a depalatalized pronunciation of the anlaut, depending on the speaker.

• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 14
• Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 263

Inherited from Old East Slavic льнъ (lĭnŭ), from Proto-Slavic *lьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lína, from Proto-Indo-European *linom.

• IPA^(key): [lʲɵn]

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лён • (ljon) m inan (genitive льна, nominative plural льны, genitive plural льнов, relational adjective льняно́й or льно́вый)

1. flax

Compounds:

• го́рный лён m (górnyj ljon)

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “лён”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.