lón
Eastern Maninkakan edit
Alternative scripts edit
- ߟߏ߲ (nko)
Noun edit
lón
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse lón f (“calm section of a river, lagoon”), from Proto-Norse *luhnō (“inlet, sea loch”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lon, Persian lón (“seaside meadow”). Perhaps derived from ló (“clearing, meadow”).[1][2] Ultimately part of the family of terms derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic related terms include English lown (“shelter”), Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lón n (genitive singular lóns, nominative plural lón)
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ de Vries, Jan (1977) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Norse Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, page 366
- ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans, page 577. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
Further reading edit
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 689, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 689
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish lón (“fat; provision(s), food, victuals, sustenance; feast”), with the shift in meaning towards “lunch” likely influenced by the resemblance to the English word, from Proto-Celtic *lawano- (“provisions”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate”).
Noun edit
lón m (genitive singular lóin, nominative plural lónta)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- aimsir lóin, am lóin (“lunch-time”)
- armlón (“ammunition”)
- ceannaí lóin, lóncheannaí (“provision merchant”)
- lónadóir (“caterer, provisioner”)
- lónaigh (“supply, provision; lay in; put by, hoard”, transitive verb)
- long lóin (“supply ship”)
- lónroinn (“commissariat”)
- mála lóin (“haversack”)
- píosa lóin (“lunch-packet”)
- sos lóin (“lunch interval”)
References edit
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “lawano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 234
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
lón m (genitive singular lóin, nominative plural lóin)
- Alternative form of luan (“loin”)
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
lón (present analytic lónann, future analytic lónfaidh, verbal noun lónadh, past participle lónta)
- (transitive) Alternative form of lónaigh (“supply, provision; lay in; put by, hoard”)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lón”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 lón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language