lind
noun/lɪnd/
Etymology From Middle English lind, linde, from Old English lind, from Proto-West Germanic *lindu, from Proto-Germanic *lindō. Cognate with Dutch linde, German Linde, Swedish lind. Cognate to Albanian lëndë (“wood, timber, material”).
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Obsolete The lime tree, or linden tree.
- "And 'twere better for thee in the hill to be, And thy bride-dress finish sewing, Than sit under the lind and with runès-lay, A Christian man's heart to thee win."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167: