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Etymology
From Middle English louken, from Old English lūcan (“to close, lock”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to close, lock”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). More at lock.
Verb
louk (third-person singular simple present louks, present participle louking, simple past and past participle louked)
- Alternative form of lock
1873, Alexander Craig, The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604-1631: Now First Collected, page 8:Thou die heere for want of Bed, Food, and Fyres: Then who shall bee seene, To louk thy dead Eine? And intombe thee, I weine, As cuftome requyres?
- ????, published 1887, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems, page 148:
- With cair ouercum, And sorou, vhen the sun goes out of sight, Hings doun his head, And droups as dead, And will not spread, Bot louks his leavis throu langour of the nicht,
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
louk
- genitive plural of louka
Livonian
Etymology
Borrowing from Latvian lauks.
Noun
louk
- field