losse
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch los, from Middle Dutch los, from Old Dutch *los, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Noun edit
losse (plural lossem)
- (obsolete) A lynx.
- A losse went to prepare to hunt.
- 1889, Henry Morley, Early English Prose Romances:
- Losse, lynx (Dutch, los)
Etymology 2 edit
See loss.
Noun edit
losse (countable and uncountable, plural losses)
- Obsolete spelling of loss.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:
- Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Then way what loſſe your honor may ſuſtaine / If with too credent eare you liſt his ſongs / Or looſe your hart, or your chaſt treaſure open / To his vnmaſtred importunity.
- 1622, John Downame, chapter IX, in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 59:
- […] the Lord denounceth thoſe iudgements againſt her, from which ſpecially ſhee bleſſed her ſelfe, euen loſſe of Soueraigntie, ſlaughter and deſolation : […]
- a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
- Soe they resolved with losse of their lives to recover or to end the losse of theire libertie , being overcarried indifferently with hate and disdaine , two mightie passions to drive on disordered desires
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Adjective edit
losse
- inflection of los:
Verb edit
losse
Hunsrik edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German lāzzen (in the 15th century also lassen), from Old High German lāzan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
losse
Inflection edit
infinitive | losse |
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past participle | geloss |
auxiliary | hon |
present tense | |
1st person singular | losse |
2nd person singular | losst |
3rd person singular | lossd |
1st person plural | losse |
2nd person plural | lossd |
3rd person plural | losse |
imperative | |
2nd person singular | loss |
2nd person plural | lossd |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
losse
- (Early Middle English, Northern) A lynx
Descendants edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.
Verb edit
losse (imperative loss, present tense losser, passive losses, simple past and past participle lossa or losset, present participle lossende)
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German or Dutch lossen.
Verb edit
losse (present tense lossar, past tense lossa, past participle lossa, passive infinitive lossast, present participle lossande, imperative losse/loss)
Alternative forms edit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “losse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
Compare German lassen, Dutch laten, English let.
Verb edit
losse
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