lend

Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnd/

The English word “lend” has 8 meanings listed here.

verb

To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
To make a loan.
To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
To borrow.

noun

Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
The lumbar region; loin.
The loins; flank; buttocks.

Etymology

From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend,…

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