line – Old English noun declension

Noun: line
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	līne
Plural	līnan

Genitive

Singular	līnan
Plural	līnena

Dative

Singular	līnan
Plural	līnum

Accusative

Singular	līnan
Plural	līnan

Sample Sentences

late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
Wāst þū nū þæt þū leornodest on eorþcræfte be ānre līnan āwritenre andlang middes ānes þōðres? (Do you remember what you learned in geometry about a line drawn along the middle of a ball?)

Nouns inflected like line

line,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Akin to Old High German līna (“line”) (German Leine (“rope”)), Middle Dutch līne (“rope, cord”) (Dutch lijn (“rope”)), Old Norse līna (“cord, rope”) (Danish line (“rope, cord”)), Old English līn (“flax, linen, cloth”). See: German Nouns 'Leine', Dutch Nouns 'lijn', Old Norse Nouns 'lina'.