# lin

> English word · Verb · IPA /lɪn/ · frequency rank #9,623

## Definitions
1. To desist, to stop, to cease.

## Etymology
From Middle English linnen, from Old English linnan (“to cease from, desist, lose, yield up”), from Proto-West Germanic *linnan, from Proto-Germanic *linnaną (“to turn, move aside, avoid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to elude, avoid, shrink from”). Cognate with Danish linne (“to stop, rest”), dialectal Swedish linna (“to pause, rest”), Icelandic linna (“to stop, rest”).

## Easily confused with
- **Lt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lt)
- **lo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lo)
- **LP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lp)
- **LN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-ln)
- **Ls** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-ls)
- **lu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lu)
- **LV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lv)
- **LR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lr)
- **LM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lm)
- **LJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lj)
- **lx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lx)
- **LZ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lz)
- **lot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lot)
- **low** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-low)
- **lol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lol)
- **los** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-los)
- **log** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-log)
- **lit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lit)
- **lip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lip)
- **Lou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lin-vs-lou)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lin