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lend

verb
/ˈlɛnd/US/ˈlɪ̟nd/

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, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.

  1. derived from *leykʷ-✻
  2. derived from *laihną✻
  3. inherited from *laihnijaną✻
  4. inherited from *laihnijan✻
  5. inherited from lǣnan
  6. inherited from lenen

Definitions

  1. To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will…

    To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.

    • I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank.
    • Where is that hundred euros I lent you months ago?
    • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

  2. To make a loan.

  3. To be suitable or applicable, to fit.

    • Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily.
    • The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To afford

      To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

      • Can you lend me some assistance?
      • The famous director lent his name to the new film.
      • […] Cato, lend me for a vvhile thy Patience, / And condeſcend to hear a young Man ſpeak.

    2. To borrow.

    3. Loan (permission to borrow (something)).

      • “But,” says Arthur, “I wouldn't be proud of your clothes, / For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose.”
      • Yesterday asked Mr. Aray the lend of 8s. 6d. for a month.

    4. The lumbar region

      The lumbar region; loin.

    5. The loins

      The loins; flank; buttocks.

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Derived

forelend, forlend, have a lend of someone, interlend, lease-lend, lendability, lendable, lend a hand, lend an ear, lendee, lender, lend itself to, lend-lease, lend to believe, nonlending, onlend, overlend, relend

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA