lauss
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -øysː
Adjective edit
lauss
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also Old English lēas, Old High German lōs; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH-, *lū- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also Ancient Greek λύω (lúō).
Adjective edit
lauss (comparative lausari, superlative lausastr)
Declension edit
Strong declension of lauss
Weak declension of lauss
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: laus
- Faroese: leysur
- Norn: los
- Norwegian Nynorsk: laus
- → Norwegian Bokmål: laus
- Swedish: lös
- Danish: løs
- Norwegian Bokmål: løs
- Gutnish: låss
- → Middle English: laus, lous, loos
References edit
- “lauss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press