Etymology

los

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Today it means: A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx. Full definition →

Middle English lusk ← Old English lox ← Proto-West Germanic *luhs
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los · noun1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*luhsaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*luhs
  3. Old English · inherited fromlox
  4. Middle English · inherited fromlusk
  5. English todaylos

Inherited from Middle English lusk, from Old English lox, from Proto-West Germanic *luhs, from Proto-Germanic *luhsaz. Cognate with Scots los, Saterland Frisian Luks, Low German Luks, Dutch los, German Luchs, Luxembourgish Luuss.

los · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*lews-
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*lusą
  3. Old English · inherited fromlos
  4. Middle English · inherited fromlos
  5. English todaylos

Inherited from Middle English los, from Old English los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą, from Proto-Indo-European *lews-.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishlusk all →

lusk

Proto-West Germanic*luhs all →

Proto-Germanic*luhsaz all →

Middle Englishlos all →

Old Englishlos all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.