lof

lof

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Logol.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Logol terms

Borrowed from Mapudungun lof (“community”).

lof (plural lofs)

1. Community, tribe: basic social organization of the Mapuche, Huilliche, and Picunche peoples, a (familial) clan which recognizes the authority of a lonco.

• FOL, Flo, LFO, flo', fol., olf

From Dutch lof, from Middle Dutch lof, from Old Dutch lof, from Proto-Germanic *lubą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”).

• IPA^(key): /lɔf/

lof (uncountable)

1. praise

• IPA^(key): /lɔf/

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• Hyphenation: lof
• Rhymes: -ɔf

From Middle Dutch lof, from Old Dutch lof, from Proto-West Germanic *lob, from Proto-Germanic *lubą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love”).

lof m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. praise

   Antonym: blaam

• loffelijk
• loflied
• lofprijzen
• lofzang

• Afrikaans: lof
• Negerhollands: lof

Clipping of witlof, related to loof.

lof n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. clipping of witlof (“chicory”)

lof

1. community

• lofche or lofce

• → English: lof

From Old Dutch lof, from Proto-West Germanic *lob.

lof m or n

1. praise
2. prestige

• Dutch: lof

• “lof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “lof (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English lof (“praise, glory, song of praise, hymn”).

• lofe, love

• IPA^(key): /lɔf/
• IPA^(key): /lɔ̞ːf/ (from compounds)

lof

1. praise, glory
   • a. 1225, “In Dominica Palmarum”, in Richard Morris, editor, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises‎^[1], published 1868, page 7:

     Drihten, þu dest þe lof of milc drinkende childre muðe.

     Lord, out of milk-drinking children's mouths thou bringest forth praise.

   • 1422, “The Gouvernaunce of Prynces, or Pryvete of Pryveteis”, in James Yonge, transl., edited by Robert Steele and T Henderson, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum‎^[2], translation of Secretum Secretorum by Anonymous (in Arabic), published 1898, page 136, lines 15–18:

     For evyll workys may noght be y-hyde anente the Pepill: for the wyche thynge lese he moste his lof, his roialme shall fall, the crovne of his honnoure and of his reuerence he moste faille.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. price, value
3. reputation, honour

• lofly
• lovable
• loven
• lovere
• lovynge

• English: lofe
• Scots: lof, loif, lowe, loff

• “lō̆f, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 May 2017.

From Old English hlāf (“bread, loaf, morsel”).

• lofe, loff, loof, looffe, love
• hlaf, laf (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̝ːf/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /laːf/

lof (plural loves)

1. loaf (block of bread)
2. (more generally) bread

• English: loaf
  • → Bengali: লোফ (lōph)
  • → Marshallese: ļoob
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: loff
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: loff
  • → Scottish Gaelic: lofa
• Scots: laif

• “lōf, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 February 2018.

From Old English lōf.

• IPA^(key): /loːf/

lof

1. A set of tongs.

• “lōf, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 February 2018.

lof

1. alternative form of love (“love”)

lof

1. alternative form of love (“palm”)

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lof m (plural lofs)

1. (Jersey, nautical) luff

From Proto-West Germanic *lob.

Cognate with Old Saxon lof, Dutch lof, Old High German lob (German Lob), Old Norse lof (Swedish lov). Related to lēof, lufu, lofian.

• IPA^(key): /lof/

lof n

1. praise
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Forþon þæt eorla ġehwām, æftercweþendra lof lifgendra lāstworda betst.

     Thus, for every man, the praise of the after-speakers is the best of the living ones' reputations.

2. song of praise, hymn

Strong a-stem:

• hering

• lofian (“to praise, exalt; to appraise, value”)
• lofdǣd (“praiseworthy deed”)
• lofġeorn (“eager for praise”)
• lofsang (“song of praise”)
• lofsum (“praiseworthy”)

• Middle English: lof, lofe, love
  • English: lofe
  • Scots: lof, loif, lowe, loff

From Proto-West Germanic *lōfō, from Proto-Germanic *lōfô. Cognate with Icelandic lófi, Gothic 𐌻𐍉𐍆𐌰 (lōfa).

• IPA^(key): /loːf/

lōf m (nominative plural lōfas)

1. (anatomy) the palm of the hand
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Hæfde sigora weard on þam wangstede wǣre betolden lēofne lēodfruman mid lōfe sīnum […]

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Strong a-stem:

• glōf

• Middle English: lofe, loofe, love, loove
  • English: loof
  • Scots: lufe, luif

From Proto-Germanic *lubą (“praise”), whence also German Lob. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”).

lof n

1. praise

   Synonym: hróðr

   Antonyms: háð, spott

   • Egill Skallagrímsson, Hǫfuðlausn 20.1–2:

     Bark þengils lof · á þagnar rof

     I carried the ruler's praise into the opening of silence.

2. leave, permission
3. (plural only) license

   þeir skulu ráða lǫgum ok lofum

   the administration rests with them

• ljúfr (“dear, beloved”)
• leyfa (“to permit; to praise”)
• leyfi n (“permission”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “lof”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

lof c or n

1. obsolete spelling of lov (“permission”)