hlinian - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• hleonian

From Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxli.ni.ɑn/, [ˈl̥i.ni.ɑn]

hlinian

1. to lean, bend, lie down, recline, rest
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 13, verse 25

     Witodlīce þā hē hlinode ofer ðæs Hǣlendes brēostum, hē cwæð tō him, Drihten, hwæt ys hē?

     Certainly when he leaned over the Healer's (Jesus') breasts, he said to him, Lord, who is he?

• ġehlinian
• hliniend
• hlinung
• wiþerhlinian

• hlǣnan

• Middle English: leonien, lenen
  • Scots: lene, leyn
  • English: lean

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hlinian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.