loess
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /lɜːs/, /ˈləʊɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈloʊ.əs/, /lɛs/, /lʌs/
- Rhymes: -ɜːs, -əʊɪs, -oʊəs, -ʌs
Noun[edit]
loess (countable and uncountable, plural loesses)
- (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin
- 1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink[1], Wayland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:
- The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 3:
- They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess.
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Translations[edit]
sediment of eolian origin
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Further reading[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “loess”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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Portuguese[edit]
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Noun[edit]
loess m (uncountable)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
loess n (plural loessuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of loess
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) loess | loessul | (niște) loessuri | loessurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) loess | loessului | (unor) loessuri | loessurilor |
vocative | loessule | loessurilor |
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