lorn

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*lewH-“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*leusaną“to lose”
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*galuzanaz
4. Old English · inherited from*loren
5. Middle English · inherited fromlorn
6. English todaylorn

From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)), from Old English *loren, *ġeloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”). See further at lese.

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