Loke

From Old Norse Loki.

Loke (genitive Lokes)

1. (Norse mythology) Loki
2. (rare) a male given name of modern usage

From loke (“rose”); also borrowed from the English Rose.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ke/

Loke

1. a female given name from English

• Lokelani
• Roselani

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 186.
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Loke occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 7 women and 1 man.

• Lokje, Lòkje (alternative spellings)

From Old Norse Loki, probably related to loge (“flame”). Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Loki and Swedish Locke. Through the years, the name has survived in Norwegian ballads, along with themes akin to those of the Old Norse sagas, however somewhat Christianised. While the inherited name has remained, the popular use of today is largely due to a learned borrowing from Old Norse.

(bogeyman): First attested in 1786 by Hans Jacob Wille. May be etymologically unrelated.

(fire spirit): First attested in 1821 by Niels Svenungssen in Det norske Fjeldsprog, spelled as Loohkje with definition "god of fire", giving some more information later in the book. Another oral mention of this fire spirit is attested by Storaker in 1870. Its connection to the Old Norse Loki is discussed by Olrik in «Loke i nyere folkeoverlevering» (1908), Bugge (1909), Riccardo Ginevra (2018) and others.

• IPA^(key): [²lɞ̞ːçə], [²lɞ̞ːkə], (newer and literary) [²lu̞ːkə]
• Homophone: loke
• Hyphenation: Lò‧ke

Loke m (definite Loken)

1. (folklore) a being, wight (particularly one that lives in the fire):

   Lokje dengjer Bon’e sine. ― said when it crackles in burning wood (literally, “Loke is beating his children.”)

   Loke Langbein ― nickname for spider

2. A ghost that takes children in the night
3. (Norse mythology) Loki, the god of mischief and trickery, also used as a character in Scandinavian ballades from post-pagan time
   • 1905, “Trymskvida”, in Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, transl., Edda-kvæde: norrøne fornsongar. 1. Gudekvæde, page 22:

     Flaug daa Loke
     fjørhamen dunde,
     til ut han kom
     av Aasagarden,
     og inn han kom
     i Jøtunheimen.

     Then Loki flew,
     the feather-dress whirred,
     till out he came
     of the gods’ home,
     and in he came
     to the giants’ realm.

   • 1905, Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, “Torekall”, in Edda-kvæde: norrøne fornsongar. 1. Gudekvæde, page 22:

     Det var Lòkje Lauvøy,
     tok aat sinom veng’e,
     flaug han seg so høgt i sky,
     nære flaug han sin sprenge.

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   • 1840, Anne Golid, Olea Crøger, Torekall vinn att hamaren sin [Thor gets his hammer back]‎^[1]:

     Aa de va liten Loke Leiemann
     satte sig i Fjederham,
     aa saa floug han te Nordenrikji
     aat vi de salte Vanne.

     And it was little Loki tenant
     put himself in plumage
     and then he flew to Northern Realm
     to us the salty water.

4. (rare) a male given name from Old Norse, of modern usage

• Loketrætta, Loketretta (“Lokasenna”)

• “loke”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
• “Loke” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• V. Espeland, L. Kreken, M. Dahle Lauten, B. Nordbø, E. Prøysen, A. N. Ressem, O. Solberg, E. Nessheim Wiger (2016) Kjempe- og trollballadar

From Old Norse Loki. Taken into general use as a given name in the 2000s.

Loke c (genitive Lokes)

1. (Norse mythology) Loki
2. a male given name