Lions

Lions

1. Obsolete spelling of Lyon., the capital city of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
2. (cricket) The Sri Lanka national cricket team.
3. (soccer) Singapore national football team
4. (sports) any sports team nicknamed the "Lions".

• Oslin, loins, linos, LINOs, Lison, losin', noils, Solin

First attested as leonghem in the 13th century. Borrowed from West Frisian Leons, derived in turn from a compound of Old Frisian Lieuwe (a personal name) suffixed with the collectivising suffix -ingi- and hēm (“home, settlement”). The element hēm disappeared with time.

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ɔns/
• Hyphenation: Lions

Lions n

1. A village in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Lions m pl (plural only)

1. The Senegal national football team