How do you pronounce linnet?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪnɪt/.

linnet

/ˈlɪnɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables: lin-net
IPA: /ˈlɪnɪt/

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Meaning

noun

A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.

noun

A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

American usage

name

A female given name from English, occasionally recorded since the 19th century.

Example Sentences

"⁠I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, ⁠For now her little ones have ranged; ⁠And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away."
"I heard a linnet courting His lady in the spring […]"
"Lindy herself hated the name Lindy. She said it sounded like a girl in pink gingham. At the beginning of this school year she'd started making all the teachers address her by her full name, Linnet. (She'd been named for an English bird that a soldier had mentioned to their mother during the war.) At first Karen had tried to call her that too, but it had felt so unnatural that she'd gradually given it up."

Etymology

From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”), from the bird's fondness for the seeds of flax, the source of linen and Old English līnete, līnetwige (“linnet”) (> dialectal English lintwhite).

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: linette, līnete

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

linnets (plural)

Phrases

common linnet green linnet linnet hole pine linnet red linnet Warsangli linnet Yemen linnet Linaria yemenensis syn. Carduelis yemenensis)

Synonyms

lintwhite carduelis cannabina house finch carpodacus mexicanus

Rhymes With

stinnett sinnett winnett kinnett inabinet minute innit init spinet sinnet