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Linn

//lɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A city and town in Kansas, United States.
  3. 3
    A small city, the county seat of Osage County, Missouri, United States.
  4. 4
    A town in Wisconsin, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes. Northern-England, Scotland, Wales

    "What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?"

  2. 2
    A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade. Northern-England, Scotland, Wales

    "There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe, In linns both wide and steep."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), or else a Brythonic source such as Cumbric *lınn, all from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).

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