lón
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse lón, from Proto-Germanic *luhnō (“inlet, sea loch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic cognates include English lown, Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lón n (genitive singular lóns, nominative plural lón)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1923
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 *lewh₁- (“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, pages 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]
- "lón" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 lón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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