lauss

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -øysː

Adjective

lauss

genitive singular masculine of laus
genitive singular neuter of laus

Old Norse

Etymology

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

lauss (comparative lausari, superlative lausastr)

loose

Descendants

Danish: løs
Faroese: leysur
Icelandic: laus
→ Middle English: laus, lous, loos
- Scots: lous, lows, loose
- English: loose

Norwegian Bokmål: løs
Norwegian Nynorsk: laus
Swedish: lös

References

lauss in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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