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-lins

-lins

See also: lins, Lins, and lîns

Scots

Suffix

-lins

  1. Suffix used to form adverbs from nouns, to indicate "in the direction of".
  2. Suffix used to form adverbs from adjectives or quasi adjectives, to connote direction and also manner, condition, degree.

Derived terms

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Etymology

From a variant of -lings, an ablaut variant, with genitive -s, of -lang (compare English -long). More at English -lings.

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