losa

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See also: lôa, loša, and lösa

Chickasaw

Adjective

losa

  1. black

Choctaw

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw losa, Alabama loca, Mikasuki looci, Creek lasti

Pronunciation

Noun

losa

  1. black, blackness
  2. smut, soil, blot

Adjective

losa

  1. black, dark

Verb

losa

  1. to be black

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

losa m anim

  1. genitive/accusative singular of los

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

losa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative losaði, supine losað)

  1. to loosen
    Synonyms: leysa, losna
  2. to extricate, unfasten
    Synonym: leysa
  3. to empty

Conjugation


Irish

Noun 1

losa m

  1. (nonstandard) inflection of lus (plant, herb):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Noun 2

losa m

  1. inflection of los (point, tip; tail; natural increase, produce; result; terminal):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

References


Serbo-Croatian

Noun

losa (Cyrillic spelling лоса)

  1. genitive/accusative singular of lȍs

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lausia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish or Celtiberian *lausia, from Proto-Celtic *plousā (stone slab), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleus (to pluck out) (cognate with Old Norse flus (peelings)), or from Proto-Basque *plausa (stone slab).

Pronunciation

Noun

losa f (plural losas)

  1. flagstone, paving stone, slab, tile (flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone)
    Synonym: baldosa

References

  • losa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • Hickey & Puppel (1997): Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, p. 884