linum

Etymology
From, likely from.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and other derivatives of 🇨🇬, although Pokorny proposed it is a borrowing from Latin.

Although Greek, Lithuanian , Russian are sometimes listed as cognates, they actually derive from  with a short /i/.

Celtic and Albanian words for linen probably derive from Latin, although Celtic languages retained possibly related cloth terms with a short /i/ (see ).

Considering also the existence of a Latin root with a short /i/ and a /t/, reconstruction of a common PIE protoform is impossible, and no similarly sounding terms are attested outside of Europe.

If such roots were borrowed from one or several non-IE languages, as proposed by Machek, locating the source is impossible because cultivation of linen was ubiquitous in the region since the Neolithic.

Alternatively, Fick proposed derivation as a passive past participle from because flax is soaked in water during its retting.

Noun

 * 1) flax
 * 2) linen cloth; garment made of linen
 * 3) rope, line, string, thread, cord, cable
 * 4) net for hunting or fishing
 * 5) wick of a lamp
 * 6) sail
 * 1) sail

Noun

 * 1) flax