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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ᛚᚨᚢᚲᚨᛉ (laukaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *laukaz (“leek”).
Cognate with Old English lēac, Old Saxon lōk, Old High German louh. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *lukъ and Finnish laukka, which are borrowings from the Proto-Germanic word.
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈlɑukr̩/
Noun
laukr m (genitive lauks, plural laukar)
- leek, garlic
- Völsunga saga 32, in 1829, C. C. Rafn, Fornaldar sögur Nordrlanda, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 205:
[…] sem gull af járni, eða laukr af öðrum grösum, eða hjörtr af öðrum dýrum, […]- as gold from iron, or leek from other herbs or deer from other beasts,
Declension
Declension of laukr (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “laukr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laukr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- laukr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.