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Definition lend

Etymology 1

From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendinu pl (“loins”), from Proto-Germanic *landij?, *land?? (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”), Russian ??????? (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).

Noun

lend (plural lends or linder)

1. (anatomy, Britain dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
2. (Britain dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.

Etymology 2

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound, round, etc.), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English l?nan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-Germanic *laihnijan? (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihn? (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyk?- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linqu? (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave, release”). See also loan.

Verb

lend (third-person singular simple present lends, present participle lending, simple past and past participle lent)

1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
2. (intransitive) To make a loan.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
4. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
5. (proscribed) To borrow.

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