lyske

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ljóski, from Proto-Germanic *leuskō, *leuskan- (groin), likely related to *leuhsaz (bright, light), perhaps originally meaning "light skin."[1]

Noun

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lyske c (singular definite lysken, plural indefinite lysker)

  1. (anatomy) groin

Declension

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Verb

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lyske (imperative lysk, infinitive at lyske, present tense lysker, past tense lyskede, perfect tense har lysket)

  1. (rare) to louse (to remove lice from the body of a person or animal)

References

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  • lyske” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • Rietz, Johan Ernst, “ljusk”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 410
  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “leuskan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 334

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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lyske m (definite singular lysken, indefinite plural lyskar, definite plural lyskane)

  1. (anatomy) groin

Etymology 2

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Verb

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lyske (present tense lyskar, past tense lyska, past participle lyska, passive infinitive lyskast, present participle lyskande, imperative lyske/lysk)

  1. (transitive) to delouse

References

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