Linse

Borrowed from German Linse.

Linse (plural Linses)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Linse is the 38801^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 569 individuals. Linse is most common among White (91.74%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Linse”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 443.

From Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source.

Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform.

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation of lentil was widespread in the region since the Neolithic.

The sense ‘lens’ is a semantic loan from Latin lēns (“lentil; lens”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪnzə/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Linse f (genitive Linse, plural Linsen)

1. (optics) lens
2. lentil

• linsenförmig
• Linsensuppe

• → Dutch: linze

• “Linse”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Linse” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Linse” in Duden online
• Linse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /ˈlinsə/

Linse f

1. plural of Lins