lor
English edit
Etymology edit
From Hokkien 囉/啰 (--lo͘) and Cantonese 囉/啰 (lo1).
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lor (Manglish, Singlish, colloquial Hong Kong)
- Used to convey a sense of resignation.
- Next time lor. ― Leave it for next time.
- OK lor, go ahead. ― Fine, go ahead.
- 2003 November 16, Suzanne Sng, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 16:
- [B]y then, it was too late, and I just told myself, ‘Ya lor. He’s right.’
- Asserts that the answer to something is obvious or straightforward.
- You lor. ― It's obviously you then.
- Then tell him lor. ― You go and tell him then.
- Used to emphasise one's opinion.
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See also edit
References edit
- Low, Ee Ling; Brown, Adam (2005) English in Singapore: An Introduction[1]
- Wee, Lionel (2002), “Lor in colloquial Singapore English”, in Journal of Pragmatics[2], volume 34, issue 6
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Aromanian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Romanian lor.
Pronoun edit
lor (genitive form of elj, and eali)
Pronoun edit
lor (long/stressed dative form of elj, and eali)
- to them
Usage notes edit
Always preceded by 'a'- "a lor".
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lor
Chinese edit
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lor
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French lors and alors, Italian allora.
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lor
- at the time of (an event), at the same time as
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- dum (“during, in (a period of time)”)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Javanese lor (ꦭꦺꦴꦂ), from Old Javanese lor, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of laut.
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lor
Further reading edit
- “lor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
From Italian loro and French leur.
Determiner edit
lor
- (possessive) their
Italian edit
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lor
- Apocopic form of loro
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto III”, in Inferno [Hell][3], lines 103–105; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][4], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Bestemmiavano Dio e’ lor parenti,
l’umana spezie e ’l loco e ’l tempo e ’l seme
di lor semenza e di lor nascimenti.- God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
the human race, the place, the time, the seed
of their engendering and of their birth!
- God they blasphemed and their progenitors,
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
lor
- Romanization of ꦭꦺꦴꦂ
Mauritian Creole edit
Alternative forms edit
- or
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Etymology 1 edit
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lor
Etymology 2 edit
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lor
Old Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
In sense 1, inherited from Latin illōrum. In sense 2, borrowed from Italian loro.
Pronoun edit
lor
References edit
- “lor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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lor
- to them (third-person indirect object pronoun)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- la novele lor aporte
- [He] brought the news to them
Determiner edit
lor
- their (third-person plural possessive)
- c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Et lor dex en ont merciés.
- And they thanked their gods for it.
Descendants edit
- French: leur
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lahud, from Proto-Austronesian *lahud. Doublet of lahut (“sea”) and lod (“sea”).
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lor
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin illōrum (“of those”), genitive plural of ille, illud. Compare Italian loro, French leur.
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Pronoun edit
lor (genitive form of ei, and ele)
- (also possessive determiner) their
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- (less frequently used): său (masculine singular), sa (feminine singular), săi (masculine plural), sale (feminine plural)
Pronoun edit
lor (dative form of ei, and ele)
- to them
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Turkish edit
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Noun edit
lor (definite accusative loru, plural lorlar)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | lor | |
Definite accusative | loru | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | lor | lorlar |
Definite accusative | loru | lorları |
Dative | lora | lorlara |
Locative | lorda | lorlarda |
Ablative | lordan | lorlardan |
Genitive | lorun | lorların |
Wolof edit
Noun edit
lor (definite form lor wi)