lón

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lón

1. day

   Synonym: lá

From Old Norse lón f (“calm section of a river, lagoon”), from Proto-Norse *luhnō (“inlet, sea loch”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lon, Persian [script needed] (lón, “seaside meadow”). Perhaps derived from ló (“clearing, meadow”).^[1][2] Ultimately part of the family of terms derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”), referring to shining water. Germanic related terms include English lown (“shelter”), Danish lyn (“lightning”), Swedish lugn (“calm water”).

• IPA^(key): /louːn/
• Rhymes: -ouːn

lón n (genitive singular lóns, nominative plural lón)

1. lagoon

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “689”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 689

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠoːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠoːnˠ/

From Old Irish lón (“fat; provision(s), food, victuals, sustenance; feast”), with the shift in meaning towards “lunch” likely influenced by the resemblance to the English word, from Proto-Celtic *lawano- (“provisions”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate”).

lón m (genitive singular lóin, nominative plural lónta)

1. provision, supply; food, victuals, sustenance
   1. repast, collation
   2. lunch, luncheon

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “lawano-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 234

lón m (genitive singular lóin, nominative plural lóin)

1. Alternative form of luan (“loin”)

lón (present analytic lónann, future analytic lónfaidh, verbal noun lónadh, past participle lónta)

1. (transitive) Alternative form of lónaigh (“supply, provision; lay in; put by, hoard”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lón”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language